"Recovering and restoring" with HDD Regenerator:
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A backup a day keeps DR away.

Further to that, you will need are T5, T6, & T8 frequently...and others infrequently.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

You make a mistake. Probably you think about HDD Degenerator.

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Odzyskiwanie danych

HDDRegen / Spinrite etc then open it up?

Ready, Fire, Aim! and how premature execution dooms yet another potential Data Recovery.

Diagnostic _must_ precede remedial action.

Want to self teach by experimentation?
Fabulous, but do it on your own devices (spares n repairs from ebay etc), not on a clients.

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Когда хочется кушать – съешь всё.
Голод не тётка!

If i'm not mistaking this is a wd usb drive. If its only the upper platter that is scratched we could still do a partial recovery with the other layers.
Would give you around 70% of the data (no big files like movies however).

Dobre

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