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Yes, I forgot to mention that I can't afford the fee. And was just looking to salvage some data on my own as a last ditch effort.
How much do they ask, out of curiosity ?

The specialist mentioned disabling the bad head and imaging the disk. I doubt I will be able to do that.
I don't know if ...

I sent the HDD to data recovery service for a diagnosis and found out one of the 8 read head is damaged. Is this still safe to do without causing further damage to the HDD?
You mean, you sent it to a data recovery service for a diagnosis, and now would like to try recovering the data on your own ...

Hi guys my WD Easystore 8tb HDD became unallocated. May I know how should I proceed to use TestDisk to recover my partition/lost files?


Cross-read the manual:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf

Read
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

which contains examples how to ...

Hi guys my WD Easystore 8tb HDD became unallocated. May I know how should I proceed to use TestDisk to recover my partition/lost files?