Quote Originally Posted by TPLefever View Post
This isn't going to help you, but in Iraq I dropped my laptop about 10 too many times, and the last time I did it, it did just about the same thing. Sent it home to dad, he tried what he could and figured it was just done. Opened it up, and the tiny read/write head on the drive had actually broken off of the arm.
Yeah thats what the clicking usually means, that the head is damaged. I'm going to try putting it in my external HDD case and if that doesn't work, I'll try the freezing trick.