Seagate sata drive suddenly giving problems.

[Caligula]

Hello,
today when I started my Pc, I immediately noticed that it was taking more time than usual to boot (Windows 7). After booting up, by checking explorer, one of the sata drive inside was not working properly, not accessible and its size not detected.
I have tried to boot the Pc again more times but it did not help. I have tried to put the drive in another Pc, but same result.
The drive is a Seagate Barracuda ES.2 500 Gb ST3500320NS.
I have tried to boot gparted, and the software won’t start, with the attached screens.
Can someone point me in the right direction to attemp to recover the data (or part of it) inside? Thanks.

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Gparted screen 2

Gparted screen 1

[pclab]

Since it's still detectable, try to image it with HDDsuperclone or DDrescue to a new drive and forget about that one.

[Caligula]

Since it's still detectable, try to image it with HDDsuperclone or DDrescue to a new drive and forget about that one.

Hello pclab, thanks for your suggestions.
Unfortunately I have no experience with Linux systems or such tools... but I guess that I should give a try.
I think that for this purpose I now have to build a PC with Linux and install such tools or find a bootable iso Linux distro which contains the above tools.
I had a quick look at Hddsuperclone website and I noticed that there is also a bootable iso version to download.
But from what I read about hddsuperclone... it seems that the free version cannot operate over SATA drives directly connected to the mobo... but maybe I am wrong.

[pclab]

Hi Caligula

Yes, HDDsuperclone have it's own distro and it can work with SATA drives.
Check it better and check the manual.