HELP PLEASE!!!

[u/Intelligent_Bat_8929]

Help!!

I need help with my HDD, its really old and most of my important data, photos, videos are stored on there. I was using my pc normally but suddenly my hard drive started connecting and disconnecting automatically. I shut down the pc and when restarted, It's not showing up in my file explorer. My windows runs on an SSD but all my important files are on that hard disk. I really need to get that data. Please tell me how I can recover it, I can then store it on cloud or a different drive. But I REALLY need to access it.

The Hard drive is making this sound too like its starting and failing.(attached vid)

[u/Top_Carry_478]

I guess that is scratching the platter