Data recovery

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Originally Posted by Skillz

Don't most data recovery companies/specialists use clean rooms and pull the data off by taking the hard disks apart and pretty much just put them into another hard drive that works, or use some machine that will read the platters?

I know there is software that'll recover data, but what about disks that don't/wont boot and/or are broken but the platters are still in good shape?

That's what I'm interested in learning.