• hime0321@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    lol sure. They are magnetic charges on a disk. The disk is not a permanent magnet. This means that the charge will eventually dissipate. Also platters cannot be just placed in a new drive and work perfectly. The firmware and disk hardware has to match. Plus most hdd’s have multiple platters with the data spread out over them. To do what you suggested will most likely cost you a pretty penny to a data recovery company.

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      6 days ago

      I know for a fact it can be done because I used to send drives to companies to do that exact thing. Yes it’s expensive if it needs to be done, but it’s entirely possible.