I've had good luck using DriveGenius and DataRescue Pro to deal with failing harddrives and for diagnostics/repairs. I'm a big fan of upgrading; typing this on a pre-Unibody early 2008 Macbook Pro. Upgraded the drive to a 7200 RPM one, and maxed the RAM to 6 GB. It's certainly not new, and when using Logic I hit a ceiling because of the CPU, but fuck it, I'm not dropping serious coin on electronics every 2 years.
OWC DIY kits are the way to go for nearly everything. I've taken my laptop apart a number of times for upgrading/repairs (had the cable to the drive shortout and smoke once, that was fun).
Always back your shit up, I'm bordering on double redundancy for some stuff, it blows to lose data.
PM me if you want to try an, ahem, trial version, of the above mentioned apps.
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