We do this almost on a daily basis
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Depending on the drive model, level of damage and which surface is damage we get varying levels of results. Also the nature of the data plays a part, with photo recoveries being mostly successful and larger files like video and large databases for example being less so.
Just this week had a Hitachi 1Tb 2.5” with H0 black with dust, so “physically disabled” H0 and persuading it to initialise from H1 I managed to image 75%. But as it was HFS th vast majority of the catalog file was missing
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So I had to find a way of getting at least some part of at least the catalog file from H0.... after a couple of donors and a lot of platter cleaning etc. I got a reasonable read of the catalog file and got a pretty good recovery. There are extensive but not deep scratching to H0 surface.
Of course this wasn’t cheap and most clients think that because they are only getting a 75% Recovery it should be cheaper, when in reality it’s a much tougher job and costs of multiple donors increases costs further.
So it’s only relatively small % of clients who agree to the higher costs for a less than perfect recovery.
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