• Transferring old files from an old HDD with slight corruption
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Got a completely new PC around a month ago with a fresh HDD, yet my old PC has all the files and i'm looking to transfer them over. Now, the old PC had two HDDs (both Seagate Barracuda 500GBs) yet they were slightly "corrupt", to the point of when i would turn my PC on the first message would be "HDD Status: Bad, backup files ect.". I did try a couple of things but they got to the point of being stable yet just noisy + one would sometimes display or decide not to. Now, i attempted to plug them in like a normal HDD to my new PC and they booted up fine (apart from the old message i used to get about the bad status), they were a little slow but pretty much just how they used to be, but after browsing through a few files my computer literally came to a stand still. Everything was frozen, i couldn't even get to the desktop, so i turned my computer off and just unplugged the HDD and it was fine without the old HDD. Obviously i can gather it's down to the corruption, but is there anything i can do to somewhat save them? I really need those files, the HDDs are usable just really slow + sometimes freeze up my PC pretty bad. Thanks!
Try doing a diskcheck on the hard drive, fixing any corrupt files may stop the freezing
That could work, also if you have a spare computer, like the one you have, windows has the function to move files from one PC to another if you got a new computer.
If the BIOS is saying "S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad" then the drive probably has tons of bad sectors or some other issue. You can use a program like HD Tune to view the S.M.A.R.T. data on the bad drives.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;35607674]Try doing a diskcheck on the hard drive, fixing any corrupt files may stop the freezing[/QUOTE] thanks, i'll try that when i next attempt to transfer [QUOTE=Jarrod;35611143]That could work, also if you have a spare computer, like the one you have, windows has the function to move files from one PC to another if you got a new computer.[/QUOTE] sadly i haven't got a spare computer anymore, dumped my old pc as the parts were dying/dead, but that's handy to know for the future [QUOTE=bohb;35615335]If the BIOS is saying "S.M.A.R.T. Status Bad" then the drive probably has tons of bad sectors or some other issue. You can use a program like HD Tune to view the S.M.A.R.T. data on the bad drives.[/QUOTE] actually that might be the error, all i knew was it had something about the status being bad. i'll check that out also, thanks!
I would recommend not performing any scans or repairs on the drive, as it can further degrade the data on the drive. If you can get the drive to start, copy as much as you can before it craps out again.
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