If the drive isn’t working and the data is important, stop powering it on and store it somewhere safe until you decide what to do.

As long as it was new when you did.

Since I buy used enterprise drives, I suppose nothing is off the table.

Oh wait! No used thermal paste tubes.

If I have no personal connection to the building, is it a house lab?

When the power goes out.

Hmm. I should try that stuff out on the integrated Linux thing windows has… never have for backups for cloning.

Really? It’s used/suggested here all the time. And I’m a windows guy.