Can I Retrieve back the files on a hard disk that contains bad sector?

Can I Retrieve back the files on a hard disk that contains bad sector?

Can I always retrieve back the folders and files on a hard disk that contains bad sectors? As far as I know bad sectors do spread, and it can cost your OS unable to bootup if the bad sectors are in the OS drive. But whether it will spread to a situation whereby it's totally unable to retrieve any files and folders or not is something I don't know...

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"I've tried to recover files that were already partially overwritten or in a bad condition.

My guess would be that if files are (partially) in a bad sector, the recovering software will have a hard time retrieving the files in a perfect state. Meaning they will probably be corrupted.

All I could find so far to do anything about bad sectors would be a low level format, but that would also erase the data... Though perhaps it's more important that you fix the bad sector than retrieve the files on the disk."