Saving data from failing HD

[X82]

This morning while booting my PC, I noticed it took a lot longer to boot. With the SSD it usually takes 10/15 secs. This was over 5 minutes. A few checks later show one of my HD's (I have 4) showing errors:

The drive is acting very odd. Trying to access/copy/move/delete certain files causes the PC to pretty much lock up.

I've tried copying files over to another hard drive, but this drive doesn't last long enough to copy files. After a while it will find a file it doesn't like a freeze up. Only a reboot fixes it.

How can I save my data off this drive before it completely dies?
It's really annoying, it's a 1.5TB WD drive which isn't that old.

 

[leigh_boy]

grab your self a copy of ghost, boot into the recovery cd and tell it to clone the partition or drive to another and ignore errors. or grab yourself a start tech drive duplicator for £40

 

[Sasahara]

TBF that is reasonably old. 2.5+ years of actual running time plus 3308 Start ups (I assume some of these would be power saving while the PC was on).

If you have small very important files grab them first. Other than that what leigh_boy said is you best chance of saving everything that can be saved.

Most people learn from a bad experience, back up everything you can't afford to loose. :/