As an aside to #1: The cool thing is in modern times the hardware tools have come down stupidly cheap in price. Even SD card recovery is (vaguely) in the right

As an aside to #1: The cool thing is in modern times the hardware tools have come down stupidly cheap in price. Even SD card recovery is (vaguely) in the right skilled hands in a pseudo-professional home lab these days. https://blog.acelab.eu.com/pc-3000-flash-spider-board-adapter-how-to-use-it.html https://blog.acelab.eu.com/pc-3000-flash-spider-board-adapte...