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carbonelI have a 3Tb external hard drive that's about half full. Unfortunately, something has gone wrong with it. When I tried to run the Windows error checking utility, it ran for quite a while, then hung.
I can see all the files, but a lot of them just return error messages or do nothing if I try to copy them. There's nothing critical if I can't recover the disk (it's mostly audiobooks and videos), but I don't have a backup.
Is there some better utility that you can recommend that will fix the drive and salvage what can be salvaged?
I can see all the files, but a lot of them just return error messages or do nothing if I try to copy them. There's nothing critical if I can't recover the disk (it's mostly audiobooks and videos), but I don't have a backup.
Is there some better utility that you can recommend that will fix the drive and salvage what can be salvaged?
Re: Clone
Date: 2020-08-15 04:42 pm (UTC)My personal experience after losing several drive partitions was that it's not a good use of time, but I have off-site backup, so I restored the information from Backblaze.
If you want to drop off the drives, I can clone it using hardware and send the software out to see what it can recover.
I would have to take any drive enclosure off to use the drive dock to clone it. Otherwise, I'd have to try other software cloning solutions.