Let’s hope so! I just went back to the drive with the original ESB scan on it and it just died. One minute it was readable and I was checking out the scans, the next it’s making some mechanical grinding noises and, well that’s that. Can’t run any diagnostics on it because it no longer shows up as a connected drive (tried multiple ways). Probably the control arm is stuck. I doubt you’ll be surprised to learn that it was a cheap Seagate drive. Also on there was the original LPP scan, but I had backups of that. I didn’t have backups of the ESB files (though other people do). So, I guess I won’t be testing out Dre’s tools on that scan any time soon. It might not matter though. I don’t actually know which scan was used for the Grindhouse version so it might well have been this one.
One suggestion that can help a bit (though I don’t think it would work long enough to get that amount of data off) is to stick the drive in a freezer for a while. That’ll often bring it back to life for a short while, but generally only good for one shot (doesn’t work over and over). Generally best for generating a list of contents of the drive, so you know exactly what you’re missing. Again, probably won’t do much good in your case, but it is a surprisingly little known trick that’s worth repeating.