Copying data off slightly borked drive

PhilthyPhil · 10 Apr 2008 at 11:07

I have a HDD from a mates computer that is a bit borked but a lot of the data is still readable. I have tried running a few recovery programs on it and it doesn't seem worth the effort as they take so long and lose all the directory structure and filenames etc. What I want to do is try and copy everything that can be read onto another HDD and just leave anything that is corrupt. When I copy in windows it just stops as soon as it gets to a file which it can't read... is there a way I can get around this?

rpstewart · 10 Apr 2008 at 11:10

Have you looked at the likes of Robocopy?

wannabedamned · 10 Apr 2008 at 11:21

R-studio's is a great program. And does what you have asked.

But it costs money.

PhilthyPhil · 10 Apr 2008 at 12:04

Giving robocopy a go now... seems to be working well

Thanks!

Schnippzle · 10 Apr 2008 at 13:12

Robocopy rules, if not Stellar Phoenix rocks for the borked parts of the drive. Using Robocopy atm to copy user profiles across the nas at work