What life is left in my Mac?

Last week I turned on my Mac pro to find a blue screen and nothing more.  After doing  some trouble shooting I booted up In safe mode.  This worked one time and the computer booted up beyond the blue screen to the desk top.  The next time I booted it up it went into safe mode but before getting to the desk top it shuts down.  This is what it currently does.  In the mean time I located the snow leopard disc and tried to run the disc utility.  It told me it could not repair what was wrong with it.  Next I tried to use the disc utility to copy the drive to an external drive.  This to failed and that is where I'm at.  I think this has to do with the drive.  It's almost 7 years old the same age of the Mac.  I have updated certain parts over the years like ram, other drives and graphics card.  This drive basically holds all application files.  Has anyone had experience with this?  Some of the last programs I added where purchased from apple and downloaded directly.  Will Apple allow me to get these back if they're lost?  I'm not all that worried about other programs because I have the hard disc backups. 

yup, what Grant Bennet-Alder said
Hard drives Can and Do fail, eventually. Mine did
Luckily you were smarter than I was--you have a backup, so restore from that.
A new hard drive is easy to install, and not too expensive, I paid about $200 for a few TB
As for Data recovery, you may have two choices, take it to someone, or try a data rescuing program.
good luck--just wanted to put my 2 cents in.  Tried Disc Warrior, didn't work, tried something else, didn't work
either, but luckly, I found one that did--however, I bought a new hard drive, got that up and running with Snow Leopard, then rescued the data on the old drive. Got 90% of it or more, but wasn't organized at all. main thing was I got it back......
JB

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