try putting the hdd into a normal pc or something.
Once you have access instantly do a snapshot of it. afterwards try stuff like scandisk or manually hack urself the important data.

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Thenni thought using xubuntu but that doesnt even boot up the live version....

I don't quite understand this bit. Did Xubuntu not recognise the HDD? Or did the live CD not actually work in the first place?

You could try a USB hard drive enclosure - something similar to this. Windows should see it as mass storage device and give you access to the files, assuming it isn't too corrupt. (you probably done this already)

first of all, if u have fizical errors on hdd like this then u shouldnt touch anything if u dont know what u doing, each time u make on the disk tests, scandisk software operations, trying to acced the disk, ect ect u damage it more and more up to a moment it wont be accesable...

u also canot use a system as that to get the data out from the damaged hdd, because the system going to crash or hand while it will going to trying acces tbe damaged sectors

the most logical thing to do is to make a raw copy of the sectors, maybe by PING software, or some other program that will work with damaged disk, beter read before using any... then from that copy u can restore the data to good working drive or unpack it somewhere

try to make what i do always, hit it few times with the hand, reeboot, and see if the errors disapeared or...if you are unlucky you start to have more errors.

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