I have a WD hard drive which suffered external damage when it was dropped. This actually happened over a year ago and I found a reasonably priced data recovery place to see if the data can be recovered. I am thinking that it can be rescued either by performing a platter swap (I also gave them an identical donor drive) or by mirroring the data unto the newer drive. However, my damaged drive is encrypted by Veracrypt and I can't remember the exact encryption key (password). I hope I can remember it after I get the drive back after several strong guesses.
My question is can data recovery see the contents of my hard drive without the password (which I prefer they don't see my contents)? More importantly, can they mirror the contents of the data to the new drive without the password with at least moderate success? Please advise thank you!
My question is can data recovery see the contents of my hard drive without the password (which I prefer they don't see my contents)? More importantly, can they mirror the contents of the data to the new drive without the password with at least moderate success? Please advise thank you!