Hardrive with "click of death" please help!

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I've had this hardrive for only about a year now and it suddenly started to slow down and eventually make a clicking sound. I brought it to a Microsoft Store and they said they couldn't do anything and will have to ship it and have it repaired which will cost me $1500.

I'm a college student and a writer with all my crucial files on this drive and I spent over 2 years saving for this $1000 computer. I can't afford that much for repairs, but I also can't afford to lose all of my data. Is there anything I can do, or a decent hardrive repair service that won't charge over $1000?
 
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kanewolf
You will either have to use another computer with a USB adapter or remove the disk, purchase a new disk and install the OS on the new disk, then attempt to copy data.
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The only thing you can do is copy whatever data is still accessible off the drive, and get a new one. You will now understand the importance of having a backup strategy. Use a USB drive and use it religiously .... Never have only one copy of important files.
 
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How will I copy the data? That's what I'm looking for.
 
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Can your hard drive be read at all? To copy over data from a dying hard drive, whether by using Windows systems or recovery software, a PC will have to be able to read the hard drive long enough to recover the data. Putting the hard drive into a USB enclosure is one way to do this without unecessarily operating your hard drive (the less it's used in this state, the better). Then either using Windows normally to get the files or something like Recuva.

Beyond that, however, there's little you can do outside of paying a recovery firm to recover your data and a reputable one can, in fact, cost you more than $1000. It's an absolutely brutal lesson, either expensive or heartbreaking, but the basic truth of the situation is that if you had a hard drive for a year, you had a year to make this procedure cost $0. Backing up your important data regularly is a key part of basic computer upkeep, like changing the oil in your car or the filter on your furnace; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I sincerely hope that your lesson, in the end, does not prove to be so expensive.
 
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