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by rkagerer 18 days ago
Could you use them on a hard disk platter? Is there software out there for recovery of data from a set of platters taken from a bad HDD for which replacement heads / doner drives are not longer available?
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Perhaps only a very early hard drive, as 15um is the resolution of those cameras but the latest hard drives have a track pitch around 100nm (0.1um); in any case, in the data recovery industry the usual solution is a spinstand:

https://www.guzik.com/products/head-and-media-disk-drive-tes...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4262329