Can you clone a failing hardrive or a hardrive that wont boot up?

My macbook pro gave me the grey screen with the loading cogwheel earlier this week. I tried all of the fixes with the forums but was unsuccessful. I took it in to genius and they told me that the hard drive was failing. I was able to recover the majority of my important items onto my external hardrive. I was wondering if you can clone a hard drive that is failing? Keep in mind that my macbook wont boot up on its own.

It's highly unlikely that a single corrupt file is responsible for a problem with to the drive's hardware. If the file's just causing Mac OS X to fail to boot, cloning the drive and using it as a non-boot volume won't transfer the problem.
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