drive made clicking noise and now it is gone

[netrate]

I have a hitashi external drive - I am trying my best to recover the info on it. The MBR is safe I assume because when I run Active Partition Recovery, it sees all of the files that are on there. Here is the problem - after trying to recover these files, it says most of the sectors are damaged. Right now I am at 48% and it has only found 4 files. Doesn't bode well for me. Now the files aren't going to make me go broke and no one died, but I would like to get them back - just wondering if there is another way to recover these that doesn't included going to the recovery house and spending between $500 and $5000.

Thanks in advance,

[vrocco]

Wow I have never heard a flash drive make a clicking noise.......since you posted in this section I assume that is what you are working with.