Please help guys!!

[dawnofthedead]

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Looks like i need a new hard drive but I have a few questions if you don't mind?

1. Do you think the hd still has spare sectors on it or has it run out?

2. I'm looking to buy a new hard drive in the next few weeks or so, Do you think the hd will survive till then?

3. I've just bought a 2tb Wd external hard drive, If i copy my movies, pics and documents over to my external hd do you think all of my files will backup ok?

4. After i've backed up all of the files I want (around 1.4 TB - 1.5 TB) is there a way to check that everything has copied over ok and there are no errors/corrupt files?

5. Are there any programs/software i could run on my external hd (after the files have been copied to it) to make sure all the files are ok?? I dont want to be watching a movie/opening a picture in the future and the files won't open or i'm watching a movie and halfway through the file fudges up.


Thanks.

 

[postmanfw]

Get everything backed up onto the external asap just in case...drive might be fine for ages or could die anytime...which is true for most drives really..

If file is unreadable you will get a unable to copy/move message.

If it was me i would cut everything to external so you know what you have got and what you haven't. Then carry on using the drive if you wish but just don't trust it with anything important without having a backup copy of it...again true for all drives really.

 

[dawnofthedead]

Get everything backed up onto the external asap just in case...drive might be fine for ages or could die anytime...which is true for most drives really..

If file is unreadable you will get a unable to copy/move message.

If it was me i would cut everything to external so you know what you have got and what you haven't. Then carry on using the drive if you wish but just don't trust it with anything important without having a backup copy of it...again true for all drives really.

Thanks for your reply.

Specifically what about points 3 - 6?

I''ve been reading on forums that you can copy data from a hd with bad sectors to an external hd without it telling you if you've copied any corrupt/incomplete files. So when you go to open them in the future they might not function properly.

I'd much rather only copy the files that are in perfect condition and not bother trying to salvage the ones that may or may not be in full working order.


I've run chkdsk recently but I can't tell if it's done anything positive.


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Please help me out here guys, I know i may be asking some boring/basic questions but everyone has to learn somewhere.

Some help would be much appreciated.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

Download a free trial copy of Beyond Compare and do a binary comparison between the folders on the two drives. It will take a long time, but will prove there is a direct 1:1 copy of every single byte.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

 

[dawnofthedead]

Download a free trial copy of Beyond Compare and do a binary comparison between the folders on the two drives. It will take a long time, but will prove there is a direct 1:1 copy of every single byte.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

When you say " comparison between the folders on the two drives", you mean my internal hd and external hd right?

So if everything checks out ok and the comparison shows that the files are exactly the same, does that mean that the files copied to my external hd will be complete and not have any errors/corruptions?

Is it possible when that I downloaded files previously, they were saved to bad sectors, or part of the hd where the files were saved to developed bad sectors?

I did notice that when i ran chkdsk it mentioned something about deleting index entries and replacing bad clusters on some mkv and mp3 files.

Thanks for your help by the way.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

When you say " comparison between the folders on the two drives", you mean my internal hd and external hd right?

So if everything checks out ok and the comparison shows that the files are exactly the same, does that mean that the files copied to my external hd will be complete and not have any errors/corruptions?

Is it possible when that I downloaded files previously, they were saved to bad sectors, or part of the hd where the files were saved to developed bad sectors?

I did notice that when i ran chkdsk it mentioned something about deleting index entries and replacing bad clusters on some mkv and mp3 files.

Thanks for your help by the way.

Yes, the binary comparison does a byte-for-byte comparison of both files, and will flag any that aren't absolutely identical. I always do this whenever I transfer from one disk to another. It takes time (a few hours), but in my opinion is worth the peace of mind.

It is always possible for silent corruption of data; extremely unlikely, but possible. If chkdsk reports errors, it's probably because the machine was powered off without a clean shut down. This isn't a physical error on the disk, but rather that certain records did not get updated properly. This is still bad (because you shouldn't be just killing power to your PC), but unlikely to be a cause for concern, unless you see it happening repeatedly.