That HDD was unrecoverable years ago.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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You mean on a technical level or on a "It's physically lost forever" level?
Because had he found it, the chances for recovery would have been fairly decent...if he was able to locate it...
After 12 years in a landfill that drive would be full of garbage soup. I've taken plenty of drives apart, and they aren't completely sealed.
Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol
That PCB is toast and ya really cant swap PCBs and expect it to work. Sorry but after a year in a landfill that would be toasted.
Ya might be able to read the platters if youre lucky, but I still doubt it.
You can swap logic boards and get things to work, but there's a good chance it'll be forensic recovery at that point.