Can't access hard drive, but see its there

[jrc2315]

My hard drive recently got banged with a glass while my case was open. Its a slave drive, so my computer still operates fine. When I start the computer, I hear the hard drive kick in and then it starts to read, hear a click noise and it starts to read again, then click, then restart, etc....Finally the computer starts. In the main boot up screen, the BIOS boot sees both hard drives, my master and slave and lists them in plain black and white. I get into windows and the shortcuts that I have on my desktop to my slave are visible, but can't access them, get the message says the link is unavaible. In device manager, it lists both hard drives. Disk management does not recognize it, but I figured maybe thats because its only for partitions and drive renamings. If I disconnect the slave drive, the links on my desktop disappear and obviously the computer does not recognize a second drive. One wierd thing that I have noticed is, if I go to start (right click), explore, it brings up all the files in the tree and drive C: and drives D: E: G:. Which is wierd because I have my hard drive, a CD-RW drive and a DVD drive, but its telling me that I have three cd drives. Maybe one is acutally the computer mistaking the slave as a cd drive? Even though the drive letter for the slave is supposed to be F:. I know the drive is on its last leg now, but all I want to do is move some important info I have on there to my master, in which I will move to a brand new slave once I make the switch. Any hints or tips or anything to help me access this bad boy one last time to get everything moved. I even tried the freeze trick by freezing the hard drive in hopes of shrinking everything inside to let the heads and plattes flow more freely to no avail. Oh yea...when it first happened, my computer froze, so I rebooted, and it did not recognize the drive, so I rebooted again, and it did and the drive worked fine, made some wierd noises, but I could access it and use files and do everything normally. I left for a few days, so I shut it all down, came back, and here I am. Any ideas??

 

[Freestone]

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[Lemon13]

it sound´s like the head is gone, there´s not much you can do if you dont wanne spend a fortune for a prof. hdd recovery