The sound you are hearing obviously means that there is a physical problem
with the drive. It wont matter what driver board you put in, the physical
problems will still remain. This is why most people use inexpensive tape
drives for back-up.
I expect your hard drive will run you between 700.00 to 1000.00 to repair,
but home-use drives have a very bad record for data recovery.
-Kim

"Jamie" wrote in message
...
off hand i would say no unless you want to pay lots of
cash.
if you wanted to waste some money you could get your
self another drive of the exact modal etc.
remove the drive board from the new one and mount it to the
old one.
as long as your head and lead wires are not damaged it should
work..
but i can tell you in many cases if you get the clicking noise
like that it is due to head damage or head wire breakage.. i have
even seen after closer inspection heads being dragged accrossed the
platter due to heads breaking off, no spin in the platter etc..
in that case you may not be able to recover much data.



alfonso gayoso wrote:

I have a maxtor 40 gb hd that crashed.

bios won't recognize it and it makes and continuos clacking when power
is applied.

Any suggestions for a good company doing data recovery service?

Anything I can try by myself?

Thanks in advance

al