If so, then you'd only recover the data by getting another drive exactly the same, and either change the circuit board to the old drive if that's the problem, or if that fails to work, move the platters into the new one. Otherwise it's send off to an expensive drive/data recovery service.
My HDD Seagate Barracuda 1 TB drive stopped working, probably due to overheating damage. Is there any way to recover data from it? Would I need an adaptor? If yes, which one?

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