Hey I've been recently playing with a great piece of opensource software that works on lin ux, windows and even macOS. If you're having problems with a dying/dead hard drive this might be a program you'll want to get your hands on. To make things even easier it's completely free and easily downloadable.
Check out the website:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Hard Drive Recovery
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