Originally Posted by Prime Junta
That's how professional data recovery companies do it — and it's an insanely high-risk operation if you don't have a cleanroom to work in. At the scales these things operate, microscopic dust motes behave like boulders. I would never try this at home except maybe as an experiment, if I can afford to lose the data.

Yeah its kind of last resort if you really want the data but arent willing to pay the big bucks for getting it back. Last I heard pro data recovery was like 2000 euros.