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Why not try it and find out? Copying file by file won't work on half failing drives.
At this point, file copying stands a much better chance of success than drive imaging. If the hard drive is failing, trying to create an image of it will likely fail. You might get part of the drive copied, but the image won't be usable because it doesn't contain the whole drive. Unreadable sectors will produce gaps in your data; the image that you create will be crap. If these gaps are in the operating system files, the image will be unbootable. Plus, the intensive nature of imaging is very likely to cause a failing drive to completely fail. The image will be incomplete, and your data will be gone. RejZor's idea of using TeraCopy to do a file-by-file copy is a good one.