Start up issue with clicks from hard drive

My Macbook Pro 17" with Maveric does not load beyond grey apple logo during start up and has intermittent clicks sounding from hard drive. I've tried the following to resolve:
1. Removed and reinstalled the RAM modules followed by clearing the PRAM on restart... ineffective.
2. Restarted holding the option key. This showed my 1 year old hard drive was still available. However, selecting it resulted in the same failure at the grey apple logo.
3. My previous Snow Leopard Recovery disc also ineffective. The eject button does no eject the disc either.
4. Target disk mode also fails.
5. Remote Recovery start up (command R) hangs on spinning wheel.
Please advise.

You may have to resort to using something such as DiskWarrior or Data Rescue 3 to try an repair the drive to the point where you can recover some of your files.
I assume that you have no backups?
Clinton

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