Data Recovery on damage hard drive.

Hello everyone. I have a Power PC G4 400 with two hardrives. The original and a newer WD 80 Gig's. The original is still running fine but the new one failed. It starting making clicking sounds. So I decided to move some of the data to the other HD but I lost valuable pictures. Somebody told me that sometimes the arm that reads the data gets stuck. So he told me to open it move around the arm. I also bought a replacement harddrive which I installed and is working fine. I also ordered an external case and put the bad hardrive in it an put the jumper settings as single or Master. I connect it to the computer and it did not apear in the desk top. Then I went to System Profiler and it wasn even showing there. So I changed the jumper settings to slave and If I go to utilities and Disk doctor it will show ther also but unablet to repair permissions. I dont know what to do. Know, everytime I connect it to the comp, theres a windo that says " Do you want to initialize, ignore or eject the disk", Im afraid the if I initialize, I will losse all data inside. Some how I think the drive is working know.
Can anybody tell me If I have the correct jumper settings, Can I buy any software to recover the data. Thanks a lot in advance.
Leo
PowerMac G4 400Hz, PB Ti 1.0Hz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Gonzo, welcome, I have an 80G WD hd in a external enclosure set to Single (no jumpers) and it works fine. If this does not work for you or you can not repair the drive with Disk Utility then DiskWarrior is a reliable option.
Joe
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