Can recovered corrupted files spoil the new hard drive?

[crazyfool123]

May sound paranoid but I just came off a 3 week data recovery project of a 2 TB crashed drive

So from recovered data, some files are corrupted or partial - for example media players cannot open them with various error messages. Or, for documents, Word/Excel shows error messages and sometimes then allows me to read some of the text - this was not the case before the crash. The files were ok.

My question is, are these files 'safe' on the new HDD I bought to copy the recovered data? They already 'spoilt' the entire old HDD (if my understanding is correct)!

Thanks..

 

[RealBeast]

It's really that the old damaged drive corrupted the data files, not the data files disabling the old drive. As long as this wasn't a virus caused issue, the corrupted data files will not affect the new drive but it is unlikely that you will get the corrupted files to run properly.

And was the old drive actually broken or just that the partition became corrupted?

Internal drive or external USB?

 

[crazyfool123]

Thanks! Its not a virus, so hopefully I should be good

Not just the partition, the entire drive failed. Internal drive