Have a lenovo y50-70 with the default dogshit 1TB HDD (might even be a hybrid with boot ssd I think?) It's been slow for a while but last night I was playing cs:go and then all the renders on screen were just black boxes and the game froze, so I restarted the computer and got disc errors and immediatly went to windows repair. After this boot, cpu usage was 100% for basically ever, the computer is essentialy usuable, takes 5 mins to load anything. I put it in safe mode, didn't help so I reset and booted the computer and left it on desktop for an hour and came back and its a little better now, so I ran chkdsk, but for some reason I can't use event window to look at the results, so I used HD Tune, and theres no immediate health errors, but if you benchmark it, I get around 112 transfer then it bottoms to 0 and fails the run after ~15 seconds. I'm going to get a new ssd today and just ignoring it now mainly just want to make sure that its the HD thats dead and not the cpu/gpu etc. and can I get the data back from this POS easily using an external adapter?

trying using the enter key on ur keyboard.
data's gone unless you wanna spend like 1k+.

Data recovery from hard drive requires a specialist if it's dead

I mean dead as in dogshit speeds, I'm currently in the computer typing this to you guys, I just don't know the extent of what level of dead it's at, which is mainly want I want to figure out.

How could we tell without testing it ourselfs.
It all really depends whats wrong with it... heads, motor, etc.
start by not using the drive till u go to pull data then use these...

any of these to pull data (+ spinrite if needed) but imo sounds like you ain't going to pull all ur data so target what you need.

Avira Rescue System (Data Recovery) - https://www.avira.com/en/support-download-avira-antivir-rescue-system%20/
Clonezilla (HDD Cloning & Ghosting) - https://clonezilla.org/
DMDE (Disk Editor & Data Recovery) - https://dmde.com/
DriveImage XML (Imaging & Backup) - https://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
*GetDataBackNTFS/FAT (Data Recovery) - https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
GParted (Partition Editing) - https://gparted.org/
Macrium Reflect Free (HDD Cloning & Ghosting) - https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
Recuva (Data Recovery) - https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
Rufus (Create Bootable USB) - https://rufus.ie/
TestDisk (Partition & Boot Recovery) - https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk