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Whether or not a hard drive is salvageable depends on a few things. The internal workings of a hard drive resemble that of an old turntable. A "head" (like the needle on the arm) has to touch the disk (the record) when it reads and writes data. If these physically moving parts are damaged, it's practically impossible to recover the data, and unless you're willing to spend a lot of money to recover it, it's probably not even worth it. You can generally tell if the head or drive has been damaged by the tell-take "clicking" sound as the drive is spinning up when the computer is first turned o...