Long story short, my external hard drive was fine Sunday morning before work at 10, I come home about 4:30pm to hear it making a clicking sound. I shut it down at a friends suggestion due to it being a bit on the hot side to let it rest, did that at 6pm, got home at 11:10 pm to try plugging it back into my computer, and now my computer doesn't even find the external hard drive. I've got porn on there, yes, but that's not what I'm worried about, there are other, rather important things on it as well that I need to get off it.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? One friend said it sounds like the "heads" (I think that's the word) are thrashing against the hard drive...when the external turns on, it does the clicking, with a hand on it, it feels like its trying to start up, then stops after about 20 seconds. I am hoping I can still get my files from this thing >.<