Help with dying/dead hard drive

One of my HDDs in a dual HDD laptop took a hard knock, and is dying.
First, it was making the click of death. Then, after trying to run some bios tests, it stopped making the click of death, but I cannot access a lot of data.

I can now mount the HDD, and access some of the files, but accessing files is very very slow. And many of the files give i/o error.
If I go into subdirectories, listing the contents also takes a long time.

I tried running HDD check (including fixing bad sectors) in windows, and it only covered around 10% of the drive in 10 hrs (HDD size 300GB), with about 9000 file sectors scanned.


Any suggestions?
Can I do incremental checking of the HDD? How?

I need to move my laptop, shut it off etc and cannot do HDD checking 24/7 for a week for it to finish.

 

I once had this very same problem. I found a program, called "HDD Regenerator" which worked for me. It's a paid program, however and is quite expensive (60$). There's a demo version, however.

It works on any filesystem and do not alter the data on the disk. It uses a boot image and is quite slow, but nowhere as bad as what you described.