Hard drive failure

[Nevadarain]

Hi all. I have a quick question and just wanted some quick feedback. My hard drive recently failed. It make the clicking noise of death. I removed the hard drive from the computer to try to mount it as an external. The drive shows up but every time I try to access it the computer hangs. I opened the hard drive up in a clean room to see if there was noticable damage to the platters and there was no physical damage.

I just wanted thoughts on possible solutions to access the drive and what could possibly be the cause of my problem before sending the drive to a data recovery center?

 

[Computer-Steve]

I'm not expert in this but I'm pretty sure your armature has almost worn out and become irreparably unusable. Unless you have parts and the skill to find and fix it, I think you need 'hard' data recovery :/