[slodave]

Clean rooms are overrated, unless you are in the business of drive recovery. I've only torn into a hard drive once and for that, I just spent about 2 hrs. scrubbing down one of my bathrooms. Clicking drives are not easy to fix at home. There's probably a good chance that at the end of the swap it'll still click. The drive heads jumped off their "track" and are trying to find the sectors. I have a white paper on all of this, but it's sitting on another hard drive that is not accessible at the moment.

When I first posted, I did not read the part about the drive not being recognized at all. I probably can't help in your case. I do know of a recovery company that is relatively inexpensive and do a good job.

Dave