Recovering data from a dying/dead HDD

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Okay is this actually possible. So basically my steam HDD has decided to do the dying swan. It's spinning up/spinning down constantly and i can't seem to access anything on it for more than 30 seconds before crashing the PC/BSODing the PC/Freezing the PC completely.

We're talking 200-250GB of Steam Library which you might just think "Re download it, it's easier..." Well....no. No it isn't. I have a 56k connection, and it's taken me four years of good luck thus far to accumulate all that. Now i actually moved my library to a separate and dedicated Western Digital Blue (500 GB) thinking it's a new HDD and less likely to blow up. And supposing windows went pop i could reinstall windows and not lose my stuff. Only for some reason my luck has decided the 4 month old drive would go bang and on Christmas day, no less. So here i am and i'm at my wits end with this now.

The drive just seems to spin up/spin down repeatedly for 30 seconds before spinning down and staying like that. Then it'll sometimes spin up and act normal for like 5 minutes before going back to it's random spinning problem. Obviously accessing data in this state is impossible since i can't predict when it'll happen again and as a result any data transfers to my functional HDDs fail by default when the thing spins down. I don't really want to keep trying this as it might corrupt the data or cook the drive completely.

Is there a way to recover all of this or better still fix the drive? any suggestions at all would make this less of a crisis considering a large margin of all my games (49 to be exact) are in steam's Library. Only a handful have DVD's which were activated through steam. Downloading 200+ GB is just not happening. Like i've mentioned, the drive is only 4 months old and the PC hasn't been physically moved eliminating any knocks or bumps damaging it. There are also have been no previous symptoms considering i was playing a game on that HDD earlier today and it seemed perfectly okay, this is sudden and a strange coincidence with this Steam hacker stuff. I find it very hard to believe a 4 month old WD HDD is dead, never, ever had one fail but...*Sighs*

Cheers for any suggestions folks, i appreciate it