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If the disk is failing (or perhaps has failed, you should not attempt to write to it in any way.
If you don't have a backup you may have lost everything on it.
At this point I can't imagine why you would even think this:
At best you may be able to recover something as mentioned above. Or not if unlucky.Nonetheless, can I partition my Local Disk D: only
You have to determine how much time and money you consider that to be worth.
How do you guard against this sort of thing - thinking to the future:
a. Use disk imaging regularly and routinely as is endlessly recommended here - e.g. Macrium Reflect (free/paid) etc + large enough external storage for image files.
The very act of imaging a disk verifies the integrity of the used part of the disk.
b. You can run e.g. Crystal Diskinfo (free) to monitor and alert you of any degradation against preset thresholds.