Dead internal eSATA hard drive - spins and clicks, but won't mount

I'm trying to help a friend whose internal drive died. She has since replaced it in her Powerbook, but would like to salvage the data on the old one.
I got it connected to my laptop via USB, with one of those Newer Tech multi-connectors, but all I get is a cycle of spinning and clicks, which repeats itself without the head actually reading, or mounting the drive's image on the desktop.
I'm not interested in using the drive in the future. I just want to be able to copy the data within it, so I can give it to my friend. Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
BK
Message was edited by: Blague

No Powerbook can use a SATA or eSATA drive internally. The drive is an ATA/IDE (aka PATA) drive. The reason it doesn't read or mount when connected to your laptop, which I hope is a Mac, is that it has failed. If you're connecting it to a Windoze PC laptop, don't: you'll get nowhere that way. Connect it to your G5 instead.
Once you have the bad drive connected to a Mac, download and run the free demo version of any or all of these data recovery utilities:
Data Rescue
FileSalvage
VirtualLab
All three come in demo versions that will show you what the full version could recover before you have to pay for anything.

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