Robocopy / dying hard drive

Frapple · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:09

Afternoon all,

Got an old laptop hard drive here plugged in via usb, trying to get some contract related photos off it for one of our user.

It's making some very strange noise but is still sort of readable, robocopy is working for a while then getting stuck on certain files - is there any way to set a limit of how long it will try to read the file before skipping it and continuing?

Currently running:

robocopy "E:\documents and settings\***\my documents\phakey photos" C:\users\***\desktop\pp /e /r:0 /w:1

Getting through about 10 or so photos before it stops on 0% on one file.

SiriusB · 16 Feb 2011 at 13:36

It should continue on its own if it comes across a dodgy file. How long have you waited for it to carry on?

Frapple · 16 Feb 2011 at 14:00

left it on over night

Eventually managed to get the folder open and copying via explorer, last update was 1kb/s 2h20m for 57mb of data, doesn't appear to be doing anything.

bledd · 16 Feb 2011 at 17:54

use 'unstoppable copier'

Makhaira · 16 Feb 2011 at 18:32

The /r switch that you're using already is the only option.

Frapple · 17 Feb 2011 at 08:58

Makhaira said:
The /r switch that you're using already is the only option.

Boo! Left it going another night and 'the semaphore timeout period has expired' causing it to eventually skip the file. Can't find a way to change this setting though.

bledd. said:
use 'unstoppable copier'

Will give it a go, thanks.