How do you repair a water-damaged computer?

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Water and computers don't mix. Even if the computer has been completely dried out, water can cause permanent damage to CD and disk drives and to the motherboard and expansion cards from rusting. Basically, the computer is dead. If you still want to save it, open it up and remove the hard drive and RAM sticks. Buy a new computer and put the old hard drive into the new computer to attempt to recover your data. This can be potentially damaging to the new computer, but it's worth it if you had important data on your old hard drive. You can also try the old RAM sticks in the new computer if you feel brave. If you can't get the hard drive to work, or don't want to risk your new computer to test it, try getting it professionally recovered.

Answered - 217 days ago at 12:10am on Oct 27 2011

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