Hard disk unusable after power outage [solved]

[Windows 11]

We were stress testing a workstation for imaging and there was a brief power outage during an external file copy run.This caused the system to fault, loosing connection with the external 4TB drive (which wasn't on an APC UPS) whilst the network workstation are, yes bad idea, but it happened.The enterprise hard disk wasn't recognised by the system in Disk Management (or any other tool) and had a loud audible repetitive "click" as the head was in an endless loop of activity for hours on test. We also tried direct access with a USB boot key, which didn't work.The solution that occurred to me was

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