Sounds like you can connect multiple hard drives.
I'd try shutting down, connecting the old drive back up, but not as the Boot drive.

It may have enough life left to access the stored data, but the OS section is toast.
I've had that before; a drive appears bad as the Boot drive (C:), but when used as a secondary drive, like E:, it worked well enough to transfer my files to a drive I trusted.

Just an idea.


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