manuleka 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2013 my brother gave me his 2.5" Portable 1 Tera byte hard drive to copy some stuff to and it took sooo long probably 30 mins to copy 1.5 GB of stuff...when copying from the drive to the computer some files (which were there before i got the drive) would report can't read from source file...so I'm guessing the drive is starting if not already failing...is there any good tools that can help me recover whatever data is recoverable from the drive? or a tool to help me analyze the functioning state of the drive?thanks guys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted April 22, 2013 If you are on a windows system, you can check the "properties" of the disk drive, and use the "tools" part which includes a "verify now" part.Simply be careful, windows verifications are sometimes destructive.Before that, in a command line window, type "chkdsk e:" if e: is this hard drive, it will tell you if there are errors. This is non-destructive if you don't use the "/F" (Fix problem) option. :DAlso I would use a defrag tool like "defraggler", in order to see how fragmented your brother's disk is. Fragmentation can explain a very slow disk transfer.And of course the best thing for recovering an old disk is the good old "format" command, which will give you a brand new (and empty) disk. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuleka 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2013 yea resided to formatting the disk... its going really really really slow Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted April 23, 2013 The "chkdsk" trick runs rather fast, is not dangerous and gives interesting infos, mainly if it reports errors! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuleka 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2013 The "chkdsk" trick runs rather fast, is not dangerous and gives interesting infos, mainly if it reports errors! after reformat the drive seems to work well now... chkdsk reports no error thanks yordan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted April 23, 2013 You should remember that USB devices as well as hard drives often suffer failures. So, remember that each important file should always be in two different places : your PC and an external device, your PC and your phone, your PC and a CD/DVD, your PC and skydrive, etc... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuleka 0 Report post Posted April 24, 2013 You should remember that USB devices as well as hard drives often suffer failures. So, remember that each important file should always be in two different places : your PC and an external device, your PC and your phone, your PC and a CD/DVD, your PC and skydrive, etc... yea unfortunately this drive isn't mine, but i've given advice to my brother about backup... hopefully he will backup his drive hehe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
