well the drive is still functioning physically so id consider yourself lucky because its only a matter of time before the heads crash consider yourself even luckier if you have enough time to make a backup of your data you will have a much better chance of succeeding if you do this from a live linux cd ubuntu for instance http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download rather then windows. Keep in mind its only a matter of time, before the heads crash which are responsible for reading and writing your data and you will need the whole head assembly replaced, depending on how much data you have you may be much better off doing a bitstream image of your hard drive, rather than just trying to copy whatever it is directly onto a backup drive. This will make the drive seek all over the place at lightning speed, whereas a bitstream recovery will slowly move the actuator arm which the head is attached to from one end of the platter to the other and skip if a sector is bad then try to slowly read it backwards. Data recovery as Ken mentioned is very expensive so if your drive completely fails and you cant afford to get recovered professionally, you might like to try the old pop it in a antistatic bag and ziplock bag then stick in the freezer overnight trick to get 1 LAST CHANCE.