What to do about corrupted files?

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leonalex12

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So, I have a hard drive that has been failing for quite a while now. Haven't had the ability to replace it until now. I'm ready to swap it out and everything. I want to clone it so that I don't have to reinstall everything (not just Windows. That's the easy part).

Now here is the trouble that a lot of you probably saw coming at this point: While doing a quick scan with ESET, I looked at the log and it had trouble opening a BUNCH of files. I take it these are corrupted.

So here is the question: Anything I can do about it? Is there any tool that will repair (although I'm pretty sure that isn't possible), or at least tell me what it corrupted so I know I need to replace that specific file so as not to have to just do EVERYTHING?

Thanks!
 
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When you have it installed click on the file you want to get rid of. then on the tool bar click on uninstall. It will give you choices. I have always used Medium so not to hurt anything that it may uninstall to harm your computer
After it has completed the first session, it will give a list of files the file is attached to. This is where you can search through and find the corrupted file. I usually check all and delete. This will make the file disappear.If you get rid of all those and want too really clean up the register and all other junk files. Download CCleaner. It is another free download. I only have three programs installed to keep my computer risk free.( Bit Defender Securit) FREE Version, Revo uninstaller.(deletes unwanted or bloatware) FREE version, And CCleaner (Fixing register errors and unneeded file extensions and internet cookies) FREE version) Hope this fixes your problem
 
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leonalex12

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Well the issue with that is that there really are SO many files that I couldn't possibly go through them all. I was hoping to find something that would identify them automatically.
 
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Issue is that you already know the drive is failing, you needed to do a backup of them right THEN. You can't do anything about it now aside from a straight copy over to another drive and just tell it to ignore errors. http://djlab.com/2010/12/windows-ignore-errors-with-xcopy-and-robocopy/

Cloning a drive won't help you at all in your case, you can't clone a drive with errors, it will either fail or give you a clone of those same file system errors.

You need to just copy your documents over, and do a clean Windows setup and re-install your programs. NOT try to move your programs over since that won't work unless you also know where every file for the setup goes as well as what every registry entry would be and also what DLL files need to be registered.
 
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