advice on a sick external drive


  1. jonchgo
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    Window 10
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    advice on a sick external drive


    I have an older external hard drive that around 100 video files that I am unable to transfer to my other drives.

    I know it’s slowly dying and I want to save the files if I can.

    When I try to copy or move the files to another drive everything is find until somewhere around 15-20% is copied and then Windows changes the time to transfer from couple minuets to an hour. It usually stops there and nothing is transferred.

    I tried to check the drive for errors but it seemed to get stuck doing that. I tried to use Recoverit but that just found deleted files and didn’t seem to see the files I want.

    i'm running windows 10 ver. 2004

    Disk Management says is NTSF and healthy.

    Any advice?
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  3. zbook
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    windows 10 professional version 1607 build 14393.969 64 bit
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    See if you can copy and paste portions.
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  4. OldNavyGuy
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    Windows 10 Pro 2004 20H1
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    Create a Linux Live CD (USB flash drive), boot from that, and copy the files off to a known good drive.

    The 10 Cleverest Ways to Use Linux to Fix Your Windows PC

    Then, boot back into Windows and run chkdsk /r on it.
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