- Oct 1, 2012
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I have a hard drive that I caught in the process of failing. By that I mean over a short period instead of simply crashing, drive responsiveness was turning to mud. Folders would take several minutes to an hour to just load, transfer rates from/to that drive was absolutely abysmal to point they often failed from timeouts due to long stretches of unresponsiveness, etc. However, objectively, it still "works" but for how long I don't know. I've tried connecting the drive via a USB external adapter to try to get just a couple very important files off it but because Windows is trying to discover the drive's contents it drags down the entire machine even though it's no longer the system drive.
Does anyone have a tool or technique to get just those few files off the drive? Their locations are known but I'll need to do two operations. First, I'll need to change the permissions on the folders as it's the old Documents location for my old user. Second is the copy operation itself. Just using Windows, though, like I said, is dragging the whole machine down. I'll try a bootable Linux ISO but I'm dubious on that as well just from seeing how slow the drive is to interact with.
Thanks.
Does anyone have a tool or technique to get just those few files off the drive? Their locations are known but I'll need to do two operations. First, I'll need to change the permissions on the folders as it's the old Documents location for my old user. Second is the copy operation itself. Just using Windows, though, like I said, is dragging the whole machine down. I'll try a bootable Linux ISO but I'm dubious on that as well just from seeing how slow the drive is to interact with.
Thanks.
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