Storage Problem
 

I posted this question on the technology board, but since it's photos related, I figured that I'd cross post here. Any ideas?

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.

And I'm going to close it since we don't permit cross-posting. Please feel free to follow it over in Travel Technology.

sbm12
Moderator, Travel Photography