the drive heads will click because they are unable to find the data matching what is stored on the PCB.

Logical damage

The term "logical damage" refers to situations in which the error is not a problem in the hardware and requires software-level solutions.

Corrupt partitions and file systems, media errors

In some cases, data on a hard disk drive can be unreadable due to damage to the partition table or file system, or to (intermittent)