Some type of hard drive failure?

[DyslexicHobo]

I think I've just had my first hard drive failure. 120GB of video down the drain

Unless, there's some way to fix it! Thats what you wonderful people at AT are here to help me do (or at least try).

Just recently, my hard drive stopped showing up in Windows/BIOS. I tried a couple restarts, re-plugging the IDE/power, nothing worked. I let it boot into windows, and it started making a ticking noise, like the head was hitting something (I guess that's what it was... not sure). Is there any way to go about fixing this? Or is it possible that it's just got a bad sector or something, and that's what's causing the odd noise?

Not really sure where to head with this, or if I should just give up.

 

[DyslexicHobo]

Bump. Anything else I can tell someone so that I might be able to get an answer more easily? Is there any tricks I can use to quickly get info off the drive (I've heard something about freezing the drive)?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Sector 0 is disappearing, which is why you hear the click of death. You can try the freeze the drive trick, but no guarantees whether it'll work but it is worth a shot.