How to create a bootable flash drive to pull files from a dying drive without downloading it?

Question

Hard disks

Good afternoon! Earlier I asked the question How to copy files from a dying, as I understand it, hard drive? , in which he thought over possible actions to resolve the issue: on a dying disk there are 23 GB of important photos that need to be obtained.

In this regard, the question:
Through experience, I found out that my explorer is very dull and the system as a whole fails to work, then what
is the correct way and through which program to create a bootable USB flash drive so that the main load is through it and I can copy these to another disk folders that are important to me.

I want to somehow bypass the hanging Explorer and download files.
Maybe some other file manager can be used so that nothing slows down when copying.

I may not have formulated it well, but I want to shift the load to the image / program from which I will start and download files, if at all possible.

Tell me, please, how much I think in the right direction and what else can be done, what have I missed?

PS There is no money for transferring files and opening the HDD, I want to get by with standard programs as much as possible.

Thanks for the replies.

Answer 1

So, you have decided to entrust data recovery to your knowledge. Your choice. At least read the articles on how this is done before proceeding with the recovery.
DISCLAIMER I am not a data recovery specialist. Anything I advise you use at your own risk.
So, you need to capture the disk image in I/O error ignoring mode. The result should be a huge file the size of the disk. The final image, of course, must be saved to a new disk ... (do you have it?) To one of the partitions with sufficient space.
Norton Ghost (with LiveCD) is one of the programs I used to clone disk to disk.
Acronis True Image is its alternative (Disk Mode option), and with a beautiful graphical interface.
Further, having an image file on your new drive, you can go wild and use any file recovery software that can read file system partitions (NTFS, FAT32, etc.) from the image and can assemble files from grains together. You tell them where to save and they will do the work for you.
It is desirable to have twice the size of the initial size so that there is enough space for the recovered data.
Since Explorer is dumb when browsing a directory, it's possible that the file system is not intact either.

Answer 2

Make a bootable LiveCd flash drive based on Windows XP/7/10, Boot from it and try to copy files from the disk to the same or another flash drive. There are a lot of LiveCD images. Look at the root tracker, for example. You don't need a lot of fancy stuff with a bunch of utilities. Only to boot + download file manager photos.