Pixelated tape won't capture

I'm capturing a large project - about 40 tapes - and one of them is thoroughly pixelated and won't capture. It has bands of green and magenta along the left side and most of the tape has rippling pixels. The other tapes captured easily.
Clearly it's a problem with the tape. Does anyone have a thought on how to capture all or parts of a damaged tape?
Thanks, SHC

If Johnny's suggestion doesn't work, you could also try playing it back through the camera into the deck, then bring in the signal from the deck. This might give you a technically clean video signal that FCP will accept, although you will still have the banding and pixelization. If you have a frame sync that would work even better, or any other piece of equipment that will act as a frame sync.
We are all assuming that this is critical footage you need for the project and can't be reshot so you are willing to compromise quality to keep this footage.

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