Taking apart a working HDD albeit not functioning is potentially a none starter as well they are sealed to keep even miniscule contaminents out and moving HDD pointers across a charged surface is nigh impossible as they are designed to “hover” Microns above the surface, its been the cause of many HDD failures with grounded pointers, as once they touch at speed it dislodges the magnetic coating on the surface and you get the amazing, as I call it, “floaties syndrome” where bad sectors seem to pop up in different parts of the drive every time you test the disks surface, That was the problem with one HDD last December. Might be in with a chance with a Desktop running with the side off. I have seen the freezing method but as your average HDD isn’t really happy below -20C and the fiddly nature of getting the HDD out of the freezer, slapping in a laptop, putting it back to a working state before the HDD warms up is, to say the least, fairly unrealistic. Had a few die over the years, and recently slapped a couple of new HDD’s and 1 SSD in last Dec and all were in laptops.
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