Remove the hard drive, mount it in a 2.5" SATA USB 2.0 case (newegg has many of these) and attach it to a working system to see what you can still read.

There's no point restoring on this drive, which is faulty - you'll need a new, 2.5" 9.5 mm SATA notebook drive to replace it. 

Best tactic:  order two drives.  One to replace the faulty one and the other to go into the case you'll need, for keeping backups going forward.

 

Remove the hard drive, mount it in a 2.5" SATA USB 2.0 case (newegg has many of these) and attach it to a working system to see what you can still read. There's no point restoring on this drive, which is faulty - you'll need a new, 2.5" 9.5 mm SATA notebook drive to replace it.  Best tactic:  order two drives.  One to replace the faulty one and the other to go into the case you'll need, for keeping backups going forward.

I learned a lot from what you said, I'm new to this, Many thanks to your explanation! What you said it very valuable.

Remove the hard drive, mount it in a 2.5" SATA USB 2.0 case (newegg has many of these) and attach it to a working system to see what you can still read. There's no point restoring on this drive, which is faulty - you'll need a new, 2.5" 9.5 mm SATA notebook drive to replace it.  Best tactic:  order two drives.  One to replace the faulty one and the other to go into the case you'll need, for keeping backups going forward.

I learned a lot from what you said, I'm new to this, Many thanks to your explanation! What you said it very valuable.