Toshiba 320GB EXT HDD Boot Fault

Hi all im new here only signed up because you guys seem to know your stuf!!
I'm rather pc literate, im a music/video producer and use TWO Ext HD's to save most of my work.
Ive had this Toshiba 320gb for around a year now, with no problems, never been damaged. But recently over the past week or so its started to struggle firing up Makin a "ticking" sound from the HD itself. I've tried it on other computers, I've tried it with different power supplies, and now I've left it on for like two days and its still not booted up.
This is really urgent as I work for several labels and need my work ASAP.
Other than sendin it to a data recovery centre is there anything I could do?
Or why would this have happened I dont wont it to happen again?
I've recently purchase two Seagate 500gb as these are well known for bein sturdy an never fail.
Please, please, please if anyone can help I would be massivly appreciative.
Cheers I'll check here daily for any feedback.

Hi,
that sounds not good....
If you are lucky, you can read out the data of the HDD with a Data Recovery Software like OnTrack Easy Recovery.
If you can not get your data back with this software, the only way to get the data back is to send your HDD to a Data recovery company, but this is very expensive.
I had the same problem with a external HDD and I could save my data with the software from OnTrack.
I wish you good luck, because I produce, too... ;)

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