Hi merlinmiguel,
First you should stop hammering the drive with copy commands as the drive seems to have some mechanical problems and working on the drive the way you do might kill it. What happened to the drive, was it dropped, does it sound normal, what type of drive is it? Can you post SMART data of the drive?
If data recovery by a pro is not an option (might be not as expensive as you think), you should image the drive with tools like dmde or ddrescue to a blank hdd. data-medics has an nice tutorial how to do that:
https://www.data-medics.com/forum/how-t ... -t133.htmlNext step would be to do a logical recovery with software like r-studio or you might even be able to mount the clone in knoppix.
But keep in mind that a proper analysis of the hdd is often critical. If heads are weak you can kill them, if the drive has media damage you can kill the heads, if you have firmware-issues, some can only be solved with special tools. If you overwrite data, even a pro will not be able to recover the data anymore.
So think twice: You data, your choice, your girlfriend
Kind regards