Is my HDD crashed?? I want the Data BACK!!

[gavi7566]

Hello,
4 days ago, my 1TB HDD suddenly being used 100% by the system and my system became suddenly super slow. But I managed to optimize it but no results were shown. Then yesterday I cant boot my PC up. The windows loading page was shown and the circle kept rotating for hours. Then it showed S.M.A.R.T detect bad drive. backup and replace after the bios post. Tried resetting bios to factory settings and refreshing settings of the windows 8 but no result. Then I Have bought another HDD of same size. But I wanted my data back. So I connected the both drives and booted up. It took almost half an hour to boot. then it showed all the partitions back. I was glanced for a moment and started to copy all the files to my new HDD. but it stopped at 3% and Windows Backup feature is also stuck to 15% saying "Creating shadow copy". What should I do now? I want to back it up all...
My Specs -
Intel core i5 3450 , 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB Seagate HDD(new one), 1TB Hitachi HDD(faulty one), NVIDIA GT610 1GB DDR3 Graphics.

 

[InvalidError]

It looks like your old HDD is really dying. To avoid putting unnecessary stress on it, I would recommend installing Windows on your new HDD and copy your data afterwards, starting with your most valuable stuff first in case the HDD completely fails before you can finish copying everything.

Trying to defrag and "optimize" a failing HDD cost you valuable and possibly very limited backup time, avoid wasting more of it as much as possible.

If something has gone wrong enough for SMART to tell you the HDD is having issues during POST, you definitely do not want to continue using it any more than absolutely necessary.

 

[Iankiller99]

Just a quick question first, Have you opened up the drive? Have you heard any high pitched whining noises coming from it or anything clicking or maybe sounding like a bad cd in an optical drive?

 

[gavi7566]

I Have not opened the faulty drive and have installed windows to my new hdd and removed the faulty one.
I hear the Hard drive spinning as usual. No cracking or whining noise. Simply spinning.

 

[fzabkar]

I would use a tool such as ddrescue to clone your drive, sector by sector. Ddrescue maintains a log, so it can resume after an interruption.