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I'm wondering if you've got sectors that are completely unreadable rather than just bad, in which case you might be stuck. I've successfully used a tool called SpinRite to get a failing disk back into good enough shape for long enough to grab the data off it. It works by simply being a lot more persistent than anything else (and trying a variety of strategies) to try to get just one good read out of a sector before relocating that data elsewhere, but as a result it works a disk pretty hard while trying to do this, so depending on the condition of the disk, there's a possibility that it will finally kill the disk off. If you haven't already, I'd at least grab a file-level backup of the important data from your C drive.
And unrelated to this just in case you weren't aware, you don't need to set up a clone target with Windows 10 in advance; you can just clone the entire source disk over onto an empty disk. But if you ARE cloning onto a disk that already has Windows 10 installed, you may want to clone the other partitions anyway, especially if the source and target are running different releases of Windows 10, because the specific Win10 release will affect the contents of the Recovery partition and possibly the EFI partition.
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