Help getting Files from dieing Hard drive

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superman2k2

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I have a HDD installed on my desktop full of movies the last few months it started stuttering and skipping while playing movies. Now if I try to watch a movie it take hours to load and some times wont read at all. And when I try to copy the files to another HDD it wont copy or cut and paste I left it trying for 6 hrs and for 17 hrs and it did nothing just saying copying but didn't do anything. So anyone know anyway or program that will brute force copy or someway to get these files before the drive dies? Thx
 
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it sounds like it may be too late already.

there are two paths I would consider,
1: run error checking on the drive, either windows error checking with both option enabled, or a 3rd party app that does surface scanning as well as file checking; and then try copying. The idea is that any files that can be recovered would get moved to new undamaged areas of the drive.

or 2: use robocopy with the /r & /w switches to limit how many times it retries and how long it waits between retires on errors. Xcopy will do something simular with the /c switch
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it sounds like it may be too late already.

there are two paths I would consider,
1: run error checking on the drive, either windows error checking with both option enabled, or a 3rd party app that does surface scanning as well as file checking; and then try copying. The idea is that any files that can be recovered would get moved to new undamaged areas of the drive.

or 2: use robocopy with the /r & /w switches to limit how many times it retries and how long it waits between retires on errors. Xcopy will do something simular with the /c switch
 
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Thanks Popatim Robocopy worked for the Movie files that wasn't in folders they copied and Played flawlessly but I don't know how to copy all the folder into the HDD. I used robocopy E:/Movies I:/
 
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robocopy e: i: /mir /r:3 /w:1

unless the movies folder (and everything in it) is all you want then:
robocopy e:\movies i: /mir /r:3 /w:1


edit - robocopy doesnt automatically copy sub-folders. you have to add the /mir, /s, or /e to do that.
 
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