Old HDD failure - advice.

[Columbo]

So my pensioner neighbour knocked on my door last night to ask if I could look at his computer as he couldn't access his files.
After some investigation I managed to work out that one of his hard drives is faulty so I took it out and placed it into a docking station I have, my computer briefly sees the drive, locks up for a bit then nothing.

Its a 2TB Toshiba drive made in Feb 2014.

Its also making all the usual clicking noises an old mech hard makes when they fail which I presume is the head.
Regardless on this drive are a load of his old photo's and videos of his family, some of which are no longer here and of course they are not backed up anywhere and these are what he's most concerned about.

So is there a chance I can rescue the files for him somehow?
Any advise appreciated.

 

[Columbo]

Sounds like a professional job - anything you can do at home at this point is usually a "Hail Mary" kind of thing unless you have experience transplanting drive parts as required.

Nah I have none of the experience and wouldn't be confident enough to even think about messing with it beyond the basic stuff I've already done.

Any recommendations come to mind or should I just do the usual search around?