Toshiba 320 GB external USB HDD has stopped working

Hello

Recently this evening my external hard drive has stopped working. I can start it and the blue light shows, but it seems that the arm of reading or the mechanical part is stuck or does not start. It has a very low and repetitive clicking noise.
Before I used to get a strong enough * Click * when starting and now nothing. Nothing does load in windows either, and remains undetected.

I thought that I could send to repair if it's arm which is broken or needs other than tighteneing as, it's a pretty desperate situation that recently, I cleaned my computer and used the external hard drive as back up, with all of my work for the last 8 years on this subject...

And I can't afford a recovery of data of 300 books, either.

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Possibly the HARD drive died completely. I mean it might be possible that a head crash could cause this problem.
My HARD drive died in the past, it was a laptop internal, HDD, and before that the HARD drive is dead, I noticed a strange rattling noise.
After a restart the laptop the drive HARD was not accessible
Well, HARD disk crash is not an uncommon problem and it always happens
So, in most cases, it s also should back up the data twice. That is to say: on DVD, CD, etc.

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