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It's also important not to use the disk once it gets flakey.
First, because it might continue to make things worse.
Second because it might reuse blocks that it thinks are not in use but had your old data.
So don't run an OS on a flakey disk.
The best is if you can put it into a system that does not mount it.
Then use a raw copy utility to either a big file (if you have space) or another device.
If you've lived virtuously, most of your files are in contiguous blocks.
Still, even getting the file names back could be a mammoth task.
I'm fairly anxious so I do periodic on-disk archiving, DVD, flash drive, remote server...
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