My wd hdd has relocated sectors and i need help

i am a serious noob at pc stuff at the moment and i could use some serious help to save my data :frowning:

Should i use something simple as imaging tools on windows or something a bit more hardcore like dd rescue on linux? jbtw i have zero experience with linux and my data is really important help me

A few relocated sectors are not a big deal. It means that the HDD found a problem with a sector and data was moved successfully to a spare sector. Uncorrectable or Pending sectors are the ones to worry about because those mean data was probably lost/corrupted.

Is it a few sectors or a lot? Just a few is often down to old age.

Your data should be fine, your hard drive is protecting it by blocking off some bad sectors. If youโ€™re super paranoid, just copy it to a new drive; no complicated recovery necessary.