It depends on what you mean by crashed. If it simply won't mount it can probably be recovered. If you are a little tech-savvy a great tool for recovering drives with damage to the boot sectors (a likely cause for not mounting) is called Spin-Rite.
On the other hand, if the drive is making a click-click-click sound it's probably toast, unless you want to go to the expense of having the platters remounted in a new drive (forensic recovery can run $1200+).
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