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Data Recovery - why do they let the damaged HD run all night?

I talked to a Data recovery house and they told me they sometimes have to let the drive run all night - why is that? Won't that cause more damage?

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Not unless the heads have crashed and they'd already know that after having opened the drive for recovery.
Sometimes drive (onboard) components reactivate with the generated heat. Also, it may take that long for the software to repair the partition and to be considered is the drive's storage capacity.

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