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Originally Posted by corollagtSr5
open your drive in a certified clean room and check inside. It’s important to confirm the condition of the internal moving parts, before turning it on to check if it still works.
If this happened to your drive, and you turn it on, those arms will drag the bent metal across the platters scratching them. This will cause your data to be unrecoverable.
The more we know.
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Side question, if you had two identical drives, and for whatever reason one stopped working. Could you swap over the platters of the non-working one over to the other drive and will it read the info? Given it was done in a clean environment, exact same order and and orientation of the platters etc.