Hard drive won't initialize, spins up, makes 2 clicks, and spins up again

Hard drive won't initialize, spins up, makes 2 clicks, and spins up again When I booted my computer today, it wouldn't progress past BIOS. One of the drives ( the one holding the OS, of course ) spins up, goes "click click", and then spins down and repeats the process.
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"I once had a HDD fail in a similar way (clicking noise) that I recovered by giving the drive a good whack on the side, as if something had got stuck.

Not a recommended way to fix it naturally! if you can find another way to recover the data then go with that as you might make it worse, but if you get desperate, take the drive out & hit it against something and give it a try again. (if all else fails it might just make you feel a bit better!)

If it does come back to life get all the data off and bin the drive!"