2013 Symposium Posters

Project Members
Brian Curnett, Talin Darian, Sean McCarthy, Kevin Wojcik

Currently there are very few viable methods of recovering data from a damaged hard drive. Even less methods that are economically feasible. Creating a standard, repeatable technique for extracting data from a hard drive that has sustained salt, debris, or smoke damage would be beneficial to many stakeholders. Our methods are to develop a chemical means of cleansing a hard drive of superficial impurities in order to recover information contained within the damaged hard drive. The methods we have developed will allow this procedure to be done outside a traditional clean room. To create this system in economically viable manner principles of organic chemistry, reverse osmosis filtration, and vacuum evaporation were utilized.