External dying

[InSanity]

Hi i have a 500G external drive and slowly its been getting worse and worse. Now i realise i have to back it up but i cant copy anything every time it gives a error about that source file not being there plz say there is something i can do ?

 

[LazyLion]

Hi i have a 500G external drive and slowly its been getting worse and worse. Now i realise i have to back it up but i cant copy anything every time it gives a error about that source file not being there plz say there is something i can do ?

take the hard drive out of the external casing and plug it directly into your computer.

First make a backup of all the files... use "GetDataBack" if you have to... it is on the Hiren's BootCD.

Then use these tools to diagnose the hard drive...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/all-the-tools-you-need-to-predict-the-death-of-your-hard-drive/

If there is one piece of equipment in your computer that you would predict to fail first, what would it be? Some might pick the power supply, some might pick the motherboard and even some might pick the video card. Most however, are going to choose the hard drive. So, what can you do to prevent hard drive failure?

The standard IDE/SATA hard drive today is still the most mechanical piece of equipment sitting in your present day PC. And this will continue to be the case until solid state drives become much cheaper and much more compatible for present day hardware. The most unfortunate part of the problems with these drives, is how incredibly critical they are to the state of your computer. A hard disk failure means a dead computer - unless you are lucky enough to be running in some type of RAID environment, which most home users won’t be.

To help predict and protect yourself from these the inevitable circumstances of a hard drive failure, I have come up with four third party diagnostic tools, and a list of the all the major hard drive manufacturer tools. Most of these incorporate the built-in SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) feature with most of today’s hard disks. (Windows Only)

All of these tools have a free version... and there are links to the free manufacturer's tools as well!

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

http://www.hdtune.com/

http://www.panterasoft.com/

http://www.hddscan.com/

 

[Brawler]

Is it a seagate 7200.11 by any chance?