only if you transfer the platters to a working drive as that is what data recovery places do on dead drives.
Okay thanks, it was just one of those questions ya know were you kinda know the answer but wanna get a second opinion.
I assume that when you say a "dead drive", that you're implying that it won't power on. If the drive is just corrupted, there are utilities that will skip the bad sectors and continue with the image. Also, I've had a case where a hard drive wouldn't work because the circuit board was fried. I simply replaced the board with a board from the same model hard drive and the drive booted and worked fine after that. Of course, depending on the model of drive you have, this process can be easy or difficult. In short, it really depends on the definition of "dead drive".
