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Ah.
You're probably out of luck, I'm afraid. To restore a machine after a HDD failure, you need to use a backup of that machine as it was before the failure - and that means you use the same software that you used to back it up. Since you don't seem to have that, the chances are very good that your data is gone for good. Think about it: if you could just "magically" recover your data, how would RansomWare writers make any money? (Not that the b*st*rds deserve to)

It may be possible to recover some (but probably not all) of the data from a failed disk, but that requires serious work from professionals - and that isn't cheap!
Start reading here: Hard Drive Recovery Tips - How to Recover Data from a Dead Hard Drive[^] and it may be that you can get some of it back - but if it's critical info then don't mess with it too much (if at all) as you are likely to do more damage that may impede a professional's ability to recover it.

Good luck - but you are probably better off either abandoning it, or leaving it to professionals!
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