I remember this because their kids were at my private school. The fat wife went to jail for exceeding mandatory spending limits by the court and she was a snob who thought she could get away with anything.
If it is a mechanical failure, hopefully the medium is still good to transfer into exact duplicate hard drive. There are many kinds of software to recover data if accidentally overwritten.
Many of my parents’ friends and neighbors got burned by them and he got out after 6 years the scumbag.