See if you can format the disk for reusing it. But it could well be a case of a corrupted drive. Then throw it away.
I had asked this question a while back, however havent figured it out yet.
I have an old External hard drive, just from a few years ago, which the casing power stopped working for and recently just got a new power supply for it- i was trying to transfer the files off the hard drive and it is extremely slow, and there are tons of problems when trying to transfer the files. even looking at the files on the hard drive wont load properly. its mostly just pictures. im assuming some are corrupted? how can i fix this? i understand that you can fix on a linux- id prefer to do so on just a regular pc. please help.

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