This is one WD 1TB SATA hard drive(WD10EVVS) real case study and when Dolphin data recovery engineers tried to scan the patient hard drives, and the scanning was very slow with some slight clicking noises and there’re many bad sectors and some surface area are weak too.
For such kind of sensitive weak hard drives with even downgraded magnetism, it is a must to image the patient hard drives first, the most important part for image is the selective head image. Read more