Question How do I get my HDD functional with or without losing data?

[V33RU5]

I have a Seagate Internal 1TB SATA Barracuda HDD that I've been using for over 5 year. It had no partitions because I used to believe partitions were pointless up until I went and bottlenecked this HDD filling it up with only below 10 gigs of data left. After that it just stopped functioning. The most it does when I have it connected to the pc and power it: the clutch that goes over the disk to read the data just moves up and down once while the disk spins and then it shuts down (yes, I opened it). No activity while the PC is on. If I restart it repeats doing the same activity. The HDD doesn't show up on the pc system. I need the HDD to run at any cost even if I lose what data I have on it but if there is a way I prefer keeping previous data of course. Help me please :')

 

[V33RU5]

by clutch I mean the reading head. Just scans the spinning disk once when the computer starts and then *plop*....0 activity

 

[USAFRet]

the clutch that goes over the disk to read the data just moves up and down once while the disk spins and then it shuts down (yes, I opened it)

You killed it.

Stop messing with it.

If the data is really really critical, send it off to some data recovery company.
This will cost $$$$.

 

[SkyNetRising]

the clutch that goes over the disk to read the data just moves up and down once while the disk spins and then it shuts down (yes, I opened it).

Hard drives can be opened in specialized clean rooms only. By opening it, you have destroyed it and
made recovery much harder, probably impossible.
You can throw it out now.

 

[fzabkar]

The drive is attempting to access the reserved firmware zone on the platters. It makes several attempts (11?), after which it spins down and unloads the heads (if it can't read the firmware).