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Dropped my backup external hard drive!

Jonny7 · 2010-02-05 22:59:46

One of the regular harddrives in my PC was dying rapidly but I managed to salvage a good amount of stuff off it before it completely gave up the ghost (threw it onto a new portable external drive) However, later, when starting to copy some of those files from the brand new external drive onto a netbook, I moved and the…

05-02-2010 11:59pm

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Jonny7

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One of the regular harddrives in my PC was dying rapidly but I managed to salvage a good amount of stuff off it before it completely gave up the ghost (threw it onto a new portable external drive)

However, later, when starting to copy some of those files from the brand new external drive onto a netbook, I moved and the external drive slammed onto a hardwood floor. No strange noises, I can access the drive, but anything I copy across (mainly large files) get stuck about halfway through and waits till it times out.

Unbelievably bad luck..

Checking on google I find mostly rubbish and bad advice.

So I thought I'd ask here..

Does anyone know any software (free if possible) that checks the consistency of large files so that I can find out which ones I can save?

I have hundreds on the drive and going through them one by one will take a very long time, plus it seems intermittent.

Thanks so much in advance

ps. I'm not going to take it to hard drive specialists

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#2 06-02-2010 12:28am

zod

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xcopy /c

copy even if errors occur .. just moves to the next file

http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm

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#3 06-02-2010 7:55pm

Tech Guy Sligo

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spinrite is the best software for data recovery .
If you have corrupted data it can use different methods to recover the data physically when other software can't.

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