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Kramer wrote:so i got an external hard drive because our almost 4 year old laptop will randomly give us the blue screen of death, which, i assume means that there are hard drive issues.
i have been attempting to drag and drop files into the external hard drive "e" drive and i am constantly getting the message "cannot copy the file _______ because it is corrupted or unreadable"
so am i just up shit creek with all of these files? or is there some way to move them on to the external hard drive? it's lots of files, like gigs of pics, etc.
Kramer wrote:"Cannot Copy Desktop: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable"
it's giving me this on everything i try to move onto the external hard drive
so can this be true if my computer runs all of these files fine, without any problems?
Try booting to a CD or something else that will give you a shell and see if you can move files around.
Kramer wrote:so everytime i hook up the drive, it gives me this message
The file or directory E:\$secure is corrupt or unreadable PLease runt he Chkdsk utility.
i run chkdsk, i have run it at least 3 times since yesterday and nothing has changed.
anyone got any ideas?
ClakarEQ wrote:no you don't, just copy what you can read and worry about the broke shit after the fact.
You doing a chkdsk /f can fix the trouble with the disk, that is true, it can also fuck up the data on the disk in such a way that more file corruption actually takes place. Not saying it happens in every case but I have had it happen first hand. No harm should be done with what I suggesting, it will should not cause further corruption as only "reads" are taking place. If the disk is fucked and on a downward spiral, chkdsk can in fact fuck it up further.
Point being, copy what you can, then fix, then copy the stuff you missed.
The command I gave you will bypass errors and continue to copy. If there are only specific areas of concern then specify them further
example:
xcopy c:\documents and settings\username\my documents\*.* /e /s /c /h f:
10sun wrote:Word of warning, get the important stuff off of there while you can.
Your file system isn't going to magically get better, but only slowly deteriorate until one day it will just fail completely.
I lost a considerable chunk of data last year because of a file system failure & some of those files I'll never recover.
-Adam
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