salvaging a dying hard disk

[Curt Tresenriter]

On 7/27/2011 12:38 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>
> Freeze it, then connect as internal HD, and then instead of trying to
> mount it yourself from any LiveCD boot into Clonezilla and let it try to
> do the job for you.
>
> If Clonezilla succeeds to mount it you would be able to clone it at once.
> If Clonezilla would not mount it I doubt you would do a better job
> yourself.

Clonezilla was my first thought - problem is I don't have enough disk 
space to copy the whole drive and I really only need to save a small 
portion of it.
At this point though it looks like this is my last/best option, other 
than paying way more money than it's worth to have it professionally 
recovered.

Thanks for your input.