1T external hard drive crash!

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My terabyte external harddrive is clicking and it crashed. I put it in the freezer to get my data off of it but now I actually need to fix it. Its clicking... my brother accidentally knocked it over so theres a piece of metal thats just not sitting right anymore. Is is safe to open a hard drive and manually try to fix it? Or should I just find a way to keep it frozen whenever I use it?
 
Even if you try to open up the HDD, you won't be able to. The manufacturer's created a customized screw which, I'm thinking, only they have the tool to open it up. Are you able to set the external HDD to work as your master HDD?
 
Freezing it will allow you to recover the data off the drive for several minutes.. until it warms up again. It contracts the plates inside back to their original position.
 
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