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Question

External Hard Drive, Corrupted files

Mar 14, 2016 6:44AM PDT

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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Re: corrupted files
Mar 14, 2016 7:16AM PDT

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.

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i was hoping that i could get the files off the hard drive
Mar 14, 2016 7:31AM PDT

i have tons of pictures that i dont haveanywhere else. i want to get them off.

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Time to make choices.
Mar 14, 2016 10:42AM PDT

1. If it's irreplaceable, consider driversavers.com
2. Now we have a top post "Lost and Found" but this is never done on the last copy. You clone the drive then try on the clone. A lot of folk don't get that.

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there are rescue softwares
Mar 14, 2016 11:15AM PDT

Testdisk
Recuva
Photo Rec

and maybe others. Of course you need a good drive to back the files found to. My advice is to use a bootable DVD or USB, preferably with those programs on it, then run them to search out and find the files.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

You can also boot to a Linux Mint DVD and run GParted. Inside it is a recovery program that actually is TestDisk and I believe also PhotoRec, although it doesn't say that. It will allow you to find files on a corrupted disc and save them. Here's where and what it looks like. clk on image for larger version. It will then do a full disk scan which it warns will take some time, but then it will show you all files it found and let you copy them to another storage device.

http://glenburniemd.net/CNET/GPartedDataRescue.png

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that image
Mar 14, 2016 11:17AM PDT

right clk and choose View Image to see the full size.

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error code
Mar 14, 2016 1:28PM PDT

i keep getting error code 0x8007045d i\o problem.... its connected externally, would getting a better external plug solve the problem? whenever i try and transfer something it comes up with that then nothing works after- itll transfer like one or two pictures then stall. i have to restart the hard drive every time this happens. google says running my pc on safe mode will help but it doesnt. would running linux still help? i just dont want to go through all the trouble for nothing. was considering getting a better usb adapter cord or an external hard drive hub.

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Lots of priors on that error.
Mar 14, 2016 2:00PM PDT
https://www.google.com/search?q=0x8007045d finds them and most are just dead drives.

If I was to look into this I'd put this into our shop hound desktop to try to clone the failing drive then try the usual titles on the clone copy. If you are using some USB powered drive, get a powered case.
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thanks guys
Mar 15, 2016 5:40AM PDT

im going to whipe my laptop hard drive and ill download linux. thanks guys! ill keep you posted if it works.