"Once at a data recovery facility"

"According to Ibas, a data recovery and data erasure company
headquartered in Norway, with offices worldwide, logical problems that
may be encountered generally are one of these:

1) Erased files
2) Errors due to installation/upgrade
3) Errors in file system/overwritten
4) Viruses

The physical problems the ones you specifically asked about) break out
like this:

1) Crash 56%
2) Mechanics 17%
3) Electronics 16%
4) Shock 8%
5) Water/fire 3%

http://www.hkpc.org/itd/infosecurity/ppt/29_08_2002/dbtronix.pdf

There are many companies around the world that specialize in this sort
of disaster recovery...


Once at a data recovery facility, the hard drive is moved into a clean
room for disassembly and repair or data recovery..."

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