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This black element you see between the platters is called 'slider'.
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It is part of the heads assembly and should be on them, instead of cruising around the drive :(
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This usually means platter damage -- which means loss of data.
How much loss is yet to be determined.
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Don't worry -- it's our everyday thing to recover data from HDD!