Jean Parrot -> August Abolins said..

 JP> ...Yes, it can be done, flushing a HD really would defeat the
 JP> exercise; are you ready to fork out upwards of $350.00 US to
 JP> regain some of your data ?  Not I !

According to:

http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/licenses/

...it's only $50 per recovery. That's not bad for a large hdd.

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