how to recover data from brOken hdd?

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I have a hdd that reads EXTREMELY slow.

Regardless of filesystem, operating system or even a live-cd.

When the disk is in use it keeps speeding up, makes a clicking sound and is quiet again.

I'd just like to at least recover the data from my ext3 partitions before I throw it away, but how would I go about doing this?

When I use nautilus to copy 8Gb, it says 1144 hours remaining, which is loooooooooong.

Any ideas?
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Thanks a MIL!

[linux_tech]

I would give Testdisk a try
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[-random]

thnkx will dooo asap and report my results!

[cariboo]

You haven't really lost any data as of yet, so I don't think you want to use testdisk. I use a program called mc that is a text based file manager and more. If you used one of the text based file manager instead of nautilus, files wil be transfer a lot faster. MC is available in the repositories, you can install it from the command line:

sudo apt-get install mc

Sometimes a you have to do what it takes to backup your data.

Jim