Hi folks!
This has been a super helpful place in the past, so I'm hoping there might be some solutions I can still try for this issue. Any suggestions would be very welcome!
I have an old internal HDD that appears to be dying. It randomly disappears from Windows, freezes or crashes windows explorer, and when I try to copy anything off of it, it will go for anywhere from 0-15 minutes and then the copy dialogue will freeze up and I can't cancel/close it without shutting down (actually, proper shutdown becomes impossible when this happens and I have to hold my power button down).
I have most of the data on this drive backed up elsewhere, but getting it all back in one place will be a headache, and the latest backups are somewhat out of date now. So I'm trying to just make a dump of all the data, if I can manage it. So far I've been able to copy maybe 1/3rd of what's on there in small chunks, but now it's freezing up almost instantly.
So far these freezes happen with the Windows copy dialogue, as well as a sync software (FreeFileSync), which was no surprise. I also tried to make an image with R-Studio, which I have from a time I had a RAID-5 go down, but it also freezes up at 1%.
I realize I'm probably just going to have to suck it up and grab those backups, but I thought I'd toss this out there and see if there's something I haven't tried yet.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I can still read files off this drive through programs. Like, my music library is on there and still works in iTunes, and my games still boot as well.
This has been a super helpful place in the past, so I'm hoping there might be some solutions I can still try for this issue. Any suggestions would be very welcome!
I have an old internal HDD that appears to be dying. It randomly disappears from Windows, freezes or crashes windows explorer, and when I try to copy anything off of it, it will go for anywhere from 0-15 minutes and then the copy dialogue will freeze up and I can't cancel/close it without shutting down (actually, proper shutdown becomes impossible when this happens and I have to hold my power button down).
I have most of the data on this drive backed up elsewhere, but getting it all back in one place will be a headache, and the latest backups are somewhat out of date now. So I'm trying to just make a dump of all the data, if I can manage it. So far I've been able to copy maybe 1/3rd of what's on there in small chunks, but now it's freezing up almost instantly.
So far these freezes happen with the Windows copy dialogue, as well as a sync software (FreeFileSync), which was no surprise. I also tried to make an image with R-Studio, which I have from a time I had a RAID-5 go down, but it also freezes up at 1%.
I realize I'm probably just going to have to suck it up and grab those backups, but I thought I'd toss this out there and see if there's something I haven't tried yet.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I can still read files off this drive through programs. Like, my music library is on there and still works in iTunes, and my games still boot as well.
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