External HDD keeps disconnecting while re-imaging my PC

[NullAdmin]

I first noticed the problem a while back, while checking it for corruptions. The HDD would disconnect itself every time it enters phase 2 of checking, after trying to fix the error in the file $I30 (I can’t remember exactly), so I formatted the entire drive, created a system image, and then decided to recover from it today.It goes smoothly during the first half or the process, but after it is about 55% completed, it disconnects itself and threw an error. I retried multiple times, without success. Now my C: drive is unusable (RAW file system), I don’t have any recovery tools, what can I do now?

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