If it is a traditional hard drive, generally failures do not damage the platters. What some recover places do, is remove the platters and put them in a new driv

If it is a traditional hard drive, generally failures do not damage the platters. What some recover places do, is remove the platters and put them in a new drive enclosure, it is pretty easy to do actually. You can save some money by finding the same drive on the web, and swapping the platters into a new enclosure.