[TriLUG] [non-linux] Best method to clean up a circuit board on a hard drive (Katrina victim)

[Barry Gaskins]

   I have to agree that distilled water and then using a fan to dry it off
would be the best way to go.  Since it was already submerged in salt water,
anything that will be damaged by just water is already damaged anyway.  If
you try to wash it with anything else then it might not dissolve everything
that was left by the salt water.
   Just make sure it is completely dry before plugging it in.  You may want
to plug it into a machine that is expendable the first time too.

   - Barry Gaskins

On 1/30/06, Byarlay, Wayne A. <wab at purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Any of you guys out there know the best way I can safely clean off the
> salt & brine from a possibly recoverable hard drive that was submerged
> under salt water? I'm afraid to use water, but maybe with a cotton swab,
> that's the safest alternative... Alcohol might damage some components or
> smth... Any suggestions?
>
> WAB
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