Data recovery service?

Hi Everbody!
A (clumsy) friend/client (lets call him a criend ) of mine has dropped his harddisk in a changeover operation. It holds 6 years of his personal (guitar) recordings.
He told me it schreeches (and is of course not 'seen' by his machine), which means it is at least partly physically damaged, so his only hope is with one of those companies that can still salvage some of the content by opening the disk in a dustfree lab. I also remember this is not too cheap, my criend has indicated that his maximum budget for this is € 500/$ 600.
Anybody have any good tips? I gues location is not too important, the combination price/craftspersonship is matters much more.
Thanks in advance.
Erik.

If there is a scratching noise forget about repairing the disc.
There are some things you should know about hds.
The head doesn't have any contact to the disc when it is in operation.
It a kind of air cushion which prevents the disc from beeing destroyed by the head.
When there is a physical defect the head can destroy the surface of the disc. In this case you will hear a scratching noise.
The disc turns around with 5000-10000rpm.
Imagine there is a fingerprint on the disc. The fingerprint will vaporize immediately when the head gets over the fingerprint with 7000rpm. The head will be destroyed. Same with dust. So a dust-free room labor is needed to repair the disc.
Be careful:
Data rescue services will charge you a lot of money and tell you a lot of weird things to make you pay lots of money without any guarantee!
When there is a single scratch on the disc there is no way!! of getting the data back, regardless of what they tell you. You could never repaire the disc in this case because at speed 5000 the replaced head will be destroyed immediately by the scratch on the disc. It is only a few naometer air cushion, while the scratch is much much deeper!!! When starting the hd, the head always starts from the side of the disc until the air cushion is built up because otherwise the disc would be dammaged immediately.
And there is another aspect. You cannot!!! recover audio files when parts of the audio files are damaged. This has to do with the structure of audio files and is different from jpegs for example. Jpegs can be reconstructed even if parts of the file are damaged. Not so with audio files, never!
So the only chance to get the data back is when there is no damage on the surface of the disc. U should not pay a cent until the data recovery service tells you: "We opened the hd and there is no scratch on the disc!"
Cheers Eddie

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