You think we can recover some of the data?
You think we can recover some of the data?
Don't worry, it was already effed (you can see the head crash), so we just took it out back and played Baseball with it.
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Cheaply? No.
With a huge pile of cash? Yes. Some of it.
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Maybe a small amount, but remember, disks effectively RAID0 across all their platters. We'd be talking billions of €/£/$, for maybe what, a kB at most?;
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billions?? I don't think you have any idea of how data recovery works. Yes, it wouldn't be cheap, but it would not even be in the millions. It likely wouldn't even break into the hundreds of thousands. And you'd likely get much more than a kilobyte. It doesn't matter that you had a head crash, the data is still on the platters. Sure, some will likely be corrupt, but I think you're vastly underestimating modern data recovery services.
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That’s extremely unrealistic.
In order for data recovery to cost billions and to only recover a few kB you would need to be looking at a HDD that was ground to course dust.
Billions is a dedicated lab with hundreds of staff with the best dedicated equipment humanity can create.
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Well, I see a few ones and a couple of zeros if that helps?
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I mean, there are companies who can extract the data from even the most broken of drives, so I don't doubt that you could get the data off of it.
It's literary gotten a head crash, then been peeled like an orange, then taken out to the grass, literally been used as a baseball, and gotten all sorts of dirt on it, and had half the top of it whacked clean off. Something tells me, it'd be damn hard.
You can still recover a lot of data. It'll just be expensive.
No magnets, no acids - you're right in that this'll be hard - but from what the people told me who did a disc rescue for me once this would not yet be the worst thing they see.
The most interesting party for me is the about of tricks they need to do to reconstruct the data structure, ie where does one file and and the next one start. I'm hindsight an obvious issue but I never thought about that.
If your baseball got exactly the right spots the rescue would become at least easy now expensive :D