I have 250GB Seagate that died 6 years ago (have family photos and vids on it)
Last year before covid I showed it to 2 of the shops in Nehru Place they quoted me a whooping 12-15K , didn't had that much of a budget to get it done.
When I realized how expensive it could be I just stored the hardrive in hope that I might afford to get it done in future.
Also I had the very strange feeling that those guys (nehru place shops) looked like amateurs.
They can only recover a hardrive with a faulty PCB.
I don't think they can do platter transplant, header replacement etc based recoveries (though there might be some goods shops that I don't know about)
To everyone if you consider your data very very very important than please do a thorough research read reviews about the recovery company and then handover your hardrive to them.
Also be ready to spend a fortune on data recovery if you cant spend right now then keep your hdd safe and get it done in future when you can afford it.
Hard drive data recovery problems & prices. Drive not showing up: If the drive doesn't present when plugged in, it is usually $250-$450 to repair.
www.rossmanngroup.com
Louis Rossman
https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup has quite a number of hardrive recovery video on their channel (they shows how it actually gets done)
(Do this one at your own risk)
You can check the PCBs of the hardrive with Rs150 multimeter if your HDD pcb is faulty then you are quite lucky because pcb repair is much easier than platter transplant, header replacement etth