External hard drive failing, is backup recovery possible?

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Published on 2011-11-22T10:00:33Z Indexed on 2011/11/22 10:27 UTC
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I have a Seagate Freeagent external hard drive. While I was backing it up on Windows XP my pc crashed and I received the horrifying "Delayed Write Error" when I rebooted citing "$MFT" and a few other files. I tried to unmount it, but to no avail. Now my pc just crashes when I try to access it via Windows.

In Ubuntu I am able to view it through disk utility. SMART status is "DISK FAILURE IMMINENT". Fdisk doesn't work, and the SMART tests fail on "Reallocated Sector Count".

Is there any way for me to rescue any of my data. I can still access the drive but as soon as I do that it crashes.

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