Hard Drive Crash Fix?

My iMac G5 hard drive crashed. I have had this problem before and have usually been able to reinstall the OS after a target disk swap. On startup, the hard drive would make a funky noise (almost sounding like a dial-up modem). I could not figure it out and eventually installed a new HD. I put the old HD in an external enclosure and it is still making the same funky noise. What is this all about? I am assuming that the hard drive is as good as dead. If not, can anyone talk me through recovering some data without paying (it was mostly music that I want to recover...thank god for my external backups!).
Any help would be appreciated.
Best,
Chris

If the funky noise is a clicking, then that's the HD's death rattle. If you can mount it on your desktop, then you can drag your data off it. If you can mount it you can also try [DataRescue|http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php] to get your music off.
And congratulations n your foresight in having backups!

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