!!!!PLEASE HELP!!!!!

My external hard drive, which has everything on it from every photo I've ever taken, my music and stories to all my accounts and pretty important digital copies of documentation, has crashed!!!!!

I can't get anything off it.

Please, please, PLEASE, tell me there is someone out there who can help me with this.

When I turned it on this evening not all the folders were showing up so I tried turning it off and letting it cool down. Now when I turn it on it starts as normal but then after a few seconds makes a loud clicking noise as if processing but the drive does not show up on my laptop. The noise continues for a second or two until the light starts flashing on and off and the noise stops completely.

It's a Freecom 400GB if that helps.

Please pass this around, pimp it or do whatever else need to be done. My whole life in on that hard drive.

ljay don't fail me now!