Thanks for the attempts for hope of my harddrive Oshyan, but I know that, and I already tried ripping it out in desperation and pluggin her into my desktop... but I knew the chances were basically 0.00001%...
*CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKSHZAAARRSSSZZCLICK*
definite hard drive killing itself, not the controllers in the enclosure.
as for using as only backup, that was the point but i switch between computers and os's so often a lot of times i forget to drag some data to actually have it again. thats the main reason why i lost my older terragen stuff, as those started before i had my laptop and then most recently desktop. stuff sometimes just forgets to get unbackuped into new computers.