Is this external drive ******

jp_bl_68

jp_bl_68

jp_bl_68

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I've got a 250GB USB powered Toshiba external hard drive that I'm trying to backup.

It was originally formatted and loaded with files on a vista laptop but after having one particularly large folder (22GB, 3,500 files) loaded onto it the laptop won't recognise it.

I'm able to access the hard drive using my macbook, I can see and access all the files I've tried so far. But when trying to copy the content onto my laptop's hard drive it gets stuck. It'll copy a few files, then reach a corrupted file and stop, then when I try to copy something else the copy speed drops to almost nothing and the hard drive makes a clicking noise.

I've tried using Disk Utility to repair the drive but it's had no effect.

Anything I can try to fix this or is it beyond repair?
 
If it's getting stuck moving corrupted files then try moving individual folders - ignoring the bad ones. At least you will get most of the data hopefully. This is what I did and lost minimal stuff, its just a bit of faffing.
 
I've tried doing that but there are quite a few corrupted files scattered throughout the drive so it's going to take forever to work around them. Do you know if there's a way to identify the corrupted files en masse?
 
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