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Same. In 1990 was a field service engineer at a PC shop. We used to use circuit cooler or "cold spray" as we used to call it.

We had three levels of hard drive data recovery that we did in order. Usually didn't have to get past #2.

1. Put it into another computer

2. Cold spray the heck out of it and see if it works for an hour

3. Remove the circuit board of the drive and replace it with the circuit board from a matching known working drive

If it didn't work after that and they 100% needed the data we sent it out to Ontrack. They'd put it in their clean room, remove the platters and read the data directly.

[jacquesm]

That last trick no longer works. Too much trickery with NV storage on the board. The last time I did this successfully is about a decade ago.