I have a Seagate ST3000DM drive that will spin up (no clicking or anything abnormal sounding) will be recognized and you can even open a file but then the explorer window freezes or the application using the file freezes and you can access anything. I am new to hard drive repair and can't afford professional help at the moment but this drive has irreplaceable family data on it so I would deeply appreciate anyone's help.

I have tried running testdisk on it and that freezes too. I could probably swap things out but thought starting here would be a good idea.

Can anyone help? Pleeeeeeease

try with ddrescue

Are there any other options? I am using windows

ddrescue is the best option else you need expensive tools

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