fofapple wrote:
I have Seagate ST31000528AS drive, it starts spinning, then a few clicking noises and then stop spinning..
I have opened the drive and made a photo.. as you can see, some problems on the plate I would say..
fortunatelly, I have another one, which Works good - my idea is to switch plates from bad to the one which Works
This is a good guide on how to make two dead drives out of a dead drive and a working one.
Since you have already opened the drive (which was a very bad idea on its own), look at the air filter - how dirty it is? This could give you a rough idea about chances with a professional DR company.
But recovery will be time consuming, expensive and far from 100% perfect anyway.
fofapple wrote:
data are sensitive so no posibility to send HDD to external company for recovery...
I'm using RAID and also net/local backup but that disk is from older times, maybe somebody can give me a good advice..
The best advice here would be a RAID recovery (but that also depends on the RAID level).
If necessary, we can offer remote RAID recovery, which will be done at your place, so no data will be transferred anywhere.