Ok once I get a replacement drive, what would I have to do to try and recover data of this drive? I've heard of the freezer trick and also manually moving the head if it gets stuck in the park position.

But my drive isn't really doing any "click of death" noises. It does some clicks on spin up which last about 10-20 seconds, then stops. But it never spins down. (it will click if I query the drive using Lido but get the above mentioned error)

So not sure what the cause would be. Seeing as the drive is a total loss, I would not be afraid of opening it up so I can at least have the chance of getting the original data off it.

I might wait till I have a an external enclosure to run it in first as right now even when I do get a replacement drive, the old one won't have anywhere to go and the data won't get anywhere fast enough.

I suppose I could try and boot off it and setup networking, but I doubt it would function long enough to allow that.

Could be possible that it's capacitor issues? I wonder if these old drives can suffer from that too. I'd imagine so if they used similar capacitors as the ones known to leak from old age.