lcoughey wrote:Send it to a data recovery pro. Sorry, this is a case where the more you power it on, the more damage you are causing.
Agreed! The drive is hitting bad sectors. If you keep running it, it will eventually stop working completely. If the data is important, bring it to a professional data recovery place. If it's semi-important, but you can live without it, try cloning it using GNU ddrescue in Linux (only software in existance that handles bad sectors well). If it's not that important, RMA it and try to collect the warranty or junk it.