Sounds as if the drive is developing bad sectors based on the slowness you describe. You could attempt to recover your data using recovery software such as r-studio or recover it all, but you run the risk of causing further damage the longer you try. For a safer bet, try a data recovery company like www.dtidata.com
Hi, can you help me retrieving my files from my external hard disk? happens to be that whenever i open it, the system runs slowly although im using windows 7. Alert message said that the "file is corrupted and unreadable" Thanks guys.

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