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from what I'm reading, sounds like the drive is bad. intermittently working is part of a HD biting the dust.
depending on how valuable that data is to you, you have a couple of options:
the freezer trick....sometimes if you freeze a drive for an hour or so, the cold will shrink the platters and give you a small window of opportunity to copy the vital files.
data recovery...you can pay 700-1500 dollars to have a place that has a clean room get your data.
risk it....if you have the same HD, you could transplant the platters from one housing to another. of course one dust particle can cause head crash, so that's only if you're feeling lucky.
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