did I mention, I don't have any money? We live on $600 per month. No way yo "pony up" anything. The company I contacted never mentioned no $3000. I told them what was going on and they said for everything that needs to be done, it would be about 400. Thought there might be someone here that knows how to do it but apparently not. The drive will sit. I've read about the whole freezer thing. That's just dumb and I'm not about to do it. This is the whole problem with people nowadays. No one will help because its needed. It's all about the almighty dollar. Plain and simple greed. You can't take it with you when you go either. If I knew how to do it and someone came to me in need, I wouldn't charge them.
Not sure what you're going on about man... We gave our suggestion because that's the only solution. We offered our help to you. There wasn't any judgement. And yes I understand that you mentioned $ is an issue...but when there are very little working solutions that are "safe" for clicking drive data recovery, then you limit to the good suggestions - which unfortunately one of which is very expensive data recovery.
Once a drive starts making the "Click of Death" there's VERY few solutions that actually work. The freezer trick works
sometimes by placing it in a ziplock bag, letting it sit in the freezer for a few hours, then quickly hooking it back up to the PC and trying to extract data off of it before the platters/head warm up enough to warp. Takes several attempts usually as well, depending on how much data you need to recover.
As for the money issue...we all have money issues man. Unfortunately, data recovery in a highly controlled clean room is expensive, thus the companies that offer the service charge high $. I'm sure you could build your own clean room / clean environment, but you'd need to be extremely careful.
If the data is that important to you, keep the drive in a anti-static back, in a safe environment and save up cash over time to eventually get data recovered. Unfortunately the price for the service for recovering data won't be going down any time soon. I was quoted by SeaGate a few years ago for a drive that died to be between $400 and $700, and this was about 7 years ago.