Best way to backup HDD that is about to crash

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broseph1

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Hi

My secondary HDD started running extremely slow today and after some tests it seems it's about to give up. It's an internal hdd. I want to backup what I have on it but it's extremely slow. Tried to move it to external hdd and to C drive but 200mb has taken around 15 minutes and I have several hundred gb to move.

How do you suggest I solve this problem? I haven't burned a CD in like 10 years but perhaps that is my course of action? I don't remember how it's done though, does it involve moving the files before burning?

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One of the serious problems with your situation is that since you're dealing with an apparently failing disk, the more you work with it the greater the possibility that it will become totally defective & unusable.

Our usual course of action in these types of situations is, at the outset, to copy to another drive whatever files are most critical to the user assuming the user can prioritize this aspect.

Following this, our usual course of action is to utilize a disk-cloning program to clone the contents of the failing drive to another drive. If you're in luck it can work. Unfortunately there's always the possibility that when you're dealing with a failing drive "if you clone garbage, garbage is what you get". But in many instances it...
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ArtPog

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One of the serious problems with your situation is that since you're dealing with an apparently failing disk, the more you work with it the greater the possibility that it will become totally defective & unusable.

Our usual course of action in these types of situations is, at the outset, to copy to another drive whatever files are most critical to the user assuming the user can prioritize this aspect.

Following this, our usual course of action is to utilize a disk-cloning program to clone the contents of the failing drive to another drive. If you're in luck it can work. Unfortunately there's always the possibility that when you're dealing with a failing drive "if you clone garbage, garbage is what you get". But in many instances it works out. Obviously the larger the volume of data cloned the less likely of success. But it's worth a shot.
 
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D_Know_WD

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Hi there broseph1,

I would agree with ArtPog. You can try to clone the HDD and recover the data from the healthy one. (either right away, or running some data recovery tool on it if it is not accessible)

Another thing you can consider, is to try to access it under Ubuntu and back up the data that you need ASAP. Sometimes, Ubuntu handles failing drives better. You will just need a CD or a flash drive, so you can boot (just boot, don't install it) from it: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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