Now I know there are utilities and services that can recover information from a hard drive, people in the PC world do it for businesses all the time. In fact the government sometimes throws out old hard drives that happy techy guys grab from the dump and recover classified information.
Yes, it is posasible to recover data from a dead HDD and there are companies who do it. But they take a lot of money for it. Usually a lot more than a normal person is ready to spend (anything between 500 and 10000 Euro is possible, depending on the damage).
There are no utilities which can wake up a drive that does not appear in HDToolbox or FDisk or BIOS or whereever. The dead HDD has to be disassembled in a laboratory and the data has to be read by special machines.
Bye,
Thomas
