Hello and thanks for reading this, Let me start by saying I'm sorta a newbie at this.
The whole story:
So the drive in question is a seagate Barracuda ES.2 1000 gb, it was originally part of a maxtor NAS box, specifically a Maxtor shared storage II (aka MSS II) I told you this because from what I've read Maxtor/seagate does funny things with the partitions on their nas boxes. I noticed one day that the MSS II's fan was making an odd noise and was most likely going to die, or possibly already dead. I promptly unplugged the MSS II and ordered a suitable replacement fan, after installing the fan and hooking the NAS back up I found that the NAS was no longer present on my network, and the box was making a brrt... brrt noise about every second or so. I originally thought that the network card in the box had died So i Pulled the drive and ordered a readynas ultra from netgear, mounted the drive in the case and the same brrt...brrt noise occurred, as well as the ReadyNAS acting like no drive was present. I attempted installing the drive on an external HDD enclosure but to no avail the computer never sees the drive and the same brrt...brrt noise.

So now I turn to you guys for aid in getting all my music and home movies and Pictures back. Is it the board on the hard drive or the drive motor? I'm totally lost. If it helps I'm running windows 7 also have ubuntu 9.10 so either works but note I'm still learning linux. Also tried using R-linux but because the drive is not found by my PC that avenue is no good at the moment.

Thanks for your time ~ Phil

Stalled motor.

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Agree, sounds like seized motor.

Or possibly stiction, but unlikely.

Either way it's a cleanroom job and not DIY I'm afraid

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Did you drop the drive?

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Hi, The drive did take one minor spill while in the MSS II case but was still in working condition aterwards. So What I'm hearing is basically count that data as lost. Is there a company that deals in replacing the motors? Would it be prohibitively expensive?

There are Recovery Companies that could recover data from a drive with a seized motor, but its not a cheap work.