Here is an interesting story about restoring a Macintosh Classic and the hard disk drive, both of which were not working. Father-son relationship here, despite son being advised he was probably wasting his time, he pulled off the restoration nonetheless.
20191011/https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/56823-rescuing-my-dads-classic-ii-last-working-in-1996/
And what about the hard drive? After restoring it to functioning by a hand-hacking process, how to get a disk image off of it? Here is the discussion of the conventional process.
20191011/DuckDuckGo scsi2sd copy hard disk image
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