i recently had a problem with my laptop. when i booted up the machine, i would get a SMART failure error message and when i pressed F1 to continue, it would take a very long time to boot and it would come back to the same error message again.

thinking that my hard disk was dying, i bought a new hard disk and installed on my laptop and so now my laptop is alright.

however i need to recover data from that old hard disk, so i bought an external hard disk case and placed the old hard disk onto the case and connected to my laptop with USB.

the first few times when i connected, i could see the files from the old hard disk and managed to copy some files over although it took extremely long to transfer. but now whenever i connect to the old hard disk, after a few minutes, my laptop will crash and re-boot.

do you think my old hard disk is dead beyond repair? or you can offer some help here?

any assistance would be appreciated!