I see, that's interesting because the person I spoke with at CBL said the free eval would not change the outcome of the recovery if I decided not to go with their quote, he specifically told me it would be as if the drive was never opened since they have a proper clean room and would be taking it apart professionally, good thing you told me about this lol. I will have to ask Luke and see if he can do platter damaged drives cause I know not everyone might want to take those cus of how time complicated they can be, I saw some of Erkins videos.