I have a hard drive that's just experienced a head crash. It was working fine, then began experiencing read/write errors, access times were severely affected, and finally (and quickly) quit completely. Here's what's found on the inside.

What are the chances of salvaging data from this type of damage?

You'll need to find someone who is experienced in performing data recovery on phisically damaged HDDs.
As you can see, there is a surface damage which will complicate data recovery process. Who knows how other surfaces are damaged. It's not an easy job. Not cheap either.
Chances depend on how this HDD has been damaged by opening and other manipulation, but also depends on who will try to recover it

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in my experiance, if you open the part where actual disks are you can say goodbye to you hdd even if it was without errors. The only true way to keep your data safe is to backup, backup, backup, have everything stored on 2 places (not 2 partitions) Sorry if i am so pessimistic but that is the reality

I hope you've opened that drive in a 100% clean air environment?

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