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I have all my media stored on an external WD hdd , it started getting very slow on video playback, choppy and just freezing, then it disappeared altogether, I managed to get it back through permissions or something like that, now I am trying to transfer everything to a new drive but the transfer rate slows down to a crawl and sometimes stops altogether, is there a way to get the drive operational just enough to get my data off it?
 
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I have all my media stored on an external WD hdd , it started getting very slow on video playback, choppy and just freezing, then it disappeared altogether, I managed to get it back through permissions or something like that, now I am trying to transfer everything to a new drive but the transfer rate slows down to a crawl and sometimes stops altogether, is there a way to get the drive operational just enough to get my data off it?
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How much at a time are you trying to copy to the new drive? Perhaps try max of say approx 1Gb per copy step and see of that stabilises the transfer 'rate'?
 
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How much at a time are you trying to copy to the new drive? Perhaps try max of say approx 1Gb per copy step and see of that stabilises the transfer 'rate'?
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It seems to, there is 2 TB of data on there, it seems to freeze on AVI files, it sits for a while like that then askes me to skip the file, its hard to do any work on the drive, its slow and crashes a lot.
 
Don't try to copy all the files in one go, just select a few at a time so that the cache does not fill up so easily.
Are you copying over a usb cable, it will take a while if you are.
 
Try RoboCopy - it's part of Windows - the paradigm of the copying process is different and it just might save your bacon.

I always apply the 3 rules of backups: back it up, back it up, back it up.

In my case: local copy, another local copy (different manufacturer of hard drive/SSD), remote copy (synced overnight to bro-in-law's house) & a "crash & burn" copy in the cloud
 
I managed to get 250 odd GB off it, then it died, it was visible in device manager but not in my PC or disk manager, it was freezing disk manager when connected to pc. I took the drive out of the enclosure and connected it directly to my pc's MB, rebooted, signed in and got a blank screen, I shut the pc down, removed the drive and its all back to normal. Any ideas? could the pcb control board on the drive be dead? any way to check if its pcb or internal like the heads or something?
 
If the drive wasn't making unusual noises then it could be the controller board. Swapping it for one from an identical drive isn't as straightforward as it looks as there's a chip on the board that links to the physical drive and that needs swapping to the new PCB by someone with specialist soldering skills. It may be time to admit the drive is toast......
 
It might be software and it might be mechanical. Was there a repetitive clicking noise from the drive? The ‘click of death’. The drive mechanism could be failing.

If none of the suggestions work you could try cooling the drive before trying to copy data off. Some suggestions are to put it in the freezer for a while, but I found it better to sit it on a freezer block, and (carefully) replace the freezer block when it warms up a bit.

I have rescued data off several drives this way but, this cooling is a last resort. Use with caution,
 
Its back guys, I put the PSB back on it and plugged it in, its showing in device management, its showing as disc G in my PC (it usually shows up as WD something or other, I cant access it, disk management is failing to load, the only way to get it to show up like this is to uninstall it from the bus controller in device manager, unplug it, restart the PC then plug it back in, If I dont unplug it windows doesnt load on startup, so at least there is something there. Its not clicking, it grumbles from time to time but its always done that.
 
Forgot to say, In my PC there is a green status bar that looks like its loading but doesnt reach the end.
 
As Jonathon and Jason say above: back everything up - frequently!

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In my previous working lif, I was in IT. I have had some success of getting data off a drive which Windows couldn't read by booting into a Linux pc or running a Linux live-cd. But this depends on how techy/geeky you are, really.
 
Ghost said:
In my previous working lif, I was in IT. I have had some success of getting data off a drive which Windows couldn't read by booting into a Linux pc or running a Linux live-cd. But this depends on how techy/geeky you are, really.
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That might be above my tech/geeky skills.
 
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