Data recovery is not simple or straightforward. The misconceptions about it need to be dispelled. First up, we look at hard drive platters. Television and movies has helped spread some ideas about what you can do with them...
http://www.cbldatarecovery.com/fallacies-myths-about-data-recovery/
@aussiepicnic Yes it's true. When the hard drive crashes sometimes the read/write heads hit the platter surfaces of the drive and scrape the angstrom coating where the actual data is stored causing that data to be unrecoverable.
cbldata 2 weeks ago
I have sent my crashed drive to a couple of places in Thailand and India. Both reported they could not recover the data because of scratches. Is this true? How did the drive get scratched?
aussiepicnic 2 weeks ago