I'm having trouble with my internal WD HDD that's been around for years. It's currently at 53% health, and File Explorer struggles to load files on it. I have another empty HDD installed in my PC and I'm looking for a way to transfer all the data from the failing drive to this new one without relying on File Explorer. Any advice would really help!
2 Answers
I’ve had success using a Linux bootable USB drive. It tends to handle failing drives better than Windows tools. If you're familiar with Linux, I’d recommend giving that a try!
You can totally use a tool called Robocopy for that! It's great for handling file transfers, especially from failing drives. Just set it up like this:
robocopy D: E: /E /ZB /COPYALL /R:5 /W:5 /MT:32 /V /NP /LOG:C:RobocopyLog_DryRun.txt
Run it first as a dry run to make sure everything looks good, and if it does, go for the final copy command:
robocopy D: E: /E /ZB /COPYALL /R:5 /W:5 /MT:32 /V /NP /LOG:C:RobocopyLog_Final.txt
Here, D: is your failing drive and E: is the new one. Good luck!
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