These days, if the platters are good, they ought to be copying the data
to a replacement HDD for you. A little extra work but hardly "data
recovery" in the true sense.
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
Don't assume that because the hardware is damaged that your data
truely is, you may not be able to recover it, but someone can.
Well duh. Of course *someone* can. But I find it unlikely that a hard
drive manufacturer is going to go to that sort of effort over a drive
that was sent back RMA. The only way I can think of to truely protect
the data would be to melt the drive down in a blast furnace (since I've
read about CDs being put back together and read after being shredded),
but I'm guessing Maxtor wouldn't warranty it after that. :)
T
