Seems like you have to go to a professional data recovery company. This doesn't sound like a DIY job. Names commonly mentioned here are drivesavers.com and krollontrack.com. But there are more.
Kees
hard drive is damaged but still kinda works just really slow though like the drive is intermitent, its a older drive IDE seagate i wanna get all my media from it but i keep gettin errors on the transfer then i have to start the transfer over

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