Dead drive/not showing up in XP

[EvilDreams]

I have a 1TB drive that came in a Western Digital MyBook Essentials USB drive that I got about a month ago.

I left it on overnight doing backups, and when I got up windows was going on about "delayed write fails" all over the shop. The light was blinking on the drive but it wasn't showing up in XP.

Eventually I discovered that inside the USB enclosure it was just a normal WD10EADS WD Green SATA drive. So, I took it out and plugged it in via SATA.

The BIOS can see it four out of five times, but when I get into XP it's not there. It's not showing up in disc management, it's not showing up in device manager either.

I ran WD data lifeguard the one time it DID show up in XP and it showed up as unallocated. It also said it had too many bad sectors to even continue the diagnostic test when I tried that. There WAS about 700gb of stuff on the drive, I don't know if it's still there.

When the drive is plugged in it takes about 2 minutes to POST while the drive makes ticking noises.

Is this drive totally hosed or is there a good non-windows program I can use to recover the data in DOS (since it won't really show up in XP)? I don't have a floppy drive and all the ones I can find either involve floppies or burning about 1mb onto a CD.

Basically, what are my options? This is more or less a last attempt to see if there's anything left to try.

 

[postmanfw]

If it shows up in the bios then you may have a chance using something like backtrack (version 4 i think)
There are other programs that others will recommend

Had success myself in the past. Was slow at doing it due to the drive being faulty.

Ticking noise is definitely not a good sign though so dont get your hopes up

 

[EvilDreams]

Thanks.

It's not a metallic ticking noise but more a quiet tick like it's doing a single read, then waiting, then doing another single read, if you know what I mean. It doesn't sound like any kind of major mechanical thing.