OK if you are hearing the READ/WRITE arm going clink clink over and over. Its cause the heads have crashed on to the platter of the nickel plated disk. Hard drives work by putting data into static on clean disks. Now that the head is riding the platter you data is as good as gone.
Good Luck with your recovery.
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
I said it once and I’ll say it again.
NERDS!!![/quote]
… says the guy with a Thor comic as his avatar. 
thats never worked for me…freezing a drive.
Do you hear the drive spin at all? I had a drive in an external enclosure with flaky power so the drive would have a hard time spinning up to a good speed, so windows would not recognize it. It would spin then click and stop over and over again. I got a new enclosure for it and it has been working without any issue for a couple of years now.
How does the usb adapter you have supply power?
If it is not spinning at all, and it just clicks…you will have a difficult time getting anything off yourself.
Letting electronic equipment get below freezing and then heating it up is one of the worst things you can do. Make sure it is in a dry environment before you put it in the freezer. Throw it in a ziploc with some of those absorbent silica pouches and leave it for a while. They should suck up some of the moisture before it freezes. Once the moisture in the air inside the drive is frozen it won’t be absorbed by anything. Try and dry it out before it goes in.
[quote]KBCThird wrote:
do you guys have any other specific recommendations?[/quote]
You can send it away to labs where they will try to recover data normally, and if they can’t, they will disassemble the hard drive in a clean room and try fixing it that way. Expect to pay $1000+ if they require the clean room.
Dunno how much your data is worth.
Oh, and work in the clean room is not guaranteed to be able to recover your data.
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
Oh, and work in the clean room is not guaranteed to be able to recover your data.[/quote]
And they will not guarantee that your data will be recovered. Even though you’re paying them up front.
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
[quote]KBCThird wrote:
do you guys have any other specific recommendations?[/quote]
You can send it away to labs where they will try to recover data normally, and if they can’t, they will disassemble the hard drive in a clean room and try fixing it that way. Expect to pay $1000+ if they require the clean room.
Dunno how much your data is worth.[/quote]
Ha, not $1000, that’s for sure. Lot’s of stuff that would be nice to have, nothing that i NEED to have. Thanks.