A couple days ago my gf's laptop's hdd failed and now it can't boot.
I used a pen drive with the latest ubuntu build to boot it and try to manually copy all important data she had on it, but the OS wont let me access to said hdd because it detects it is failing/failed. (when i try to boot windows up the error it prints is related to the hdd's write function not working)
Now, i know there are tools to clone failed hdds to another drive, ive found a couple of those tools, but almost all of them are unsupported for win7 64bit, my gf's laptop original OS.
I have an external HDD laying about that could be used as recipient of the cloned data, but thing is, it too has important things on it and i cant afford to erase/move them. ( even with all this data on it, the external HDD has more than double free space than the size of the failed hdd). Is there any way i can clone the failed hdd into a folder on the external hdd without having to erase it?