Getting data off a dying HDD

[Marcvs]

anyone know any reliable and good ways of doing this - seems my freecom NAS drive (1 year old) is dying, i need to get the data off as some of it is critical and i dont have backups

[Fabula]

How is it dying?

Just copy and paste the info onto a safe drive, then back it up. If you are having problems reading the data, then you probably want a data recovery program like getdataback.

[vinnyT]

Have a look at this page "Hundreds of hard-drive repair tips!" from windowssecrets, http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070322/

Hope this helps.