Problem for the board. An idiot friend of my mine knocked over a Lacie external hard drive while it was writing and now it won't load (drive still powers up and makes clicking noises but won't load on my mac). Lacie is willing to swap out the drive (still under warranty), but there's about 500mb in total of data that I want. Given that most of the recommended solutions are $1000+ (which seems steep for a bunch of pictures) to recover everything, i was wondering if anyone had any other (cheaper) suggestions for recovering data. I'd be much obliged. . .

Thanks.