I have a laptop drive that failed and I'd like to get the data off. It was going beep-beep-beep-beep and not booting. I didn't know hdds could do this because i've never heard one make a tone before, so I guess it must have some tiny speaker in there.
I took the top off and the head was half way accross the disk and stuck. However it quite easily moved into its home position. Now it spins up, the read head dances about a bit before going home. Then it stops spinning and nothing else happens. I'm hooking it up to usb and the pc is not reading it.

Anything I can try?