Seagate fails to spin up ST3000DM001

[prot]

My 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001 (p/n: 9YN166-306) is failing to spin up and is not found by BIOS or operating systems.
When turned on, it sounds like it tries to spin up a few times, and fails. I made an mp3 of it here:
http://1drv.ms/1mpPGeh

Could anyone please suggest some next steps? Getting the data back from it would be a huge relief!
Let me know if there's any issue downloading the mp3, I haven't done much sharing with OneDrive...

[Frozwire]

Sounds like that the drive needs to visit the data recovery doctor.

[prot]

Aah, I was afraid of that. I'll call around locally - any idea how much this might cost or what the chances of a full recovery are? I saw that Seagate has a data recovery service, but I'm reluctant to give them any money after what is the third failure on one of their drives within a few months - and this one was their return replacement for another one that failed! Thank you!

[Frozwire]

You might be able to find someone here who is around your area who could provide you a more honest diagnosis of your HDD problem and could give you the proper walkthrough to get your files back.

[mr_spokk]

Hi, that drive has bad heads...has it been dropped?
You should contact Jono-Ats on this forum, he's in Atlanta:
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5276

Bosse