silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 So i'm trying to move all my music, and some of it has become corrupt (dont ask cause i wont be able to tell you how) and now when i try to copy the files to another HDD i get errors like file is corrupt, i/o device error (its an external HDD where the files are right now). so is there a program that will copy all files even if they are corrupt? thanks ~silent edit: i'm using win xp pro sp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 So i'm trying to move all my music, and some of it has become corrupt (dont ask cause i wont be able to tell you how) and now when i try to copy the files to another HDD i get errors like file is corrupt, i/o device error (its an external HDD where the files are right now). so is there a program that will copy all files even if they are corrupt? thanks ~silent Run a file system check? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 thanks for the quick repy, how do run the check? and how will that copy the files over? i just want all of my music files copied from the ext hdd to my internal one, mind you its 60gb of music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 chkdsk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is OS/Games/Programs. WARNING!  F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Deleting index entry GetMDRCDPOSTURL[3].aspx in index $I30 of file 56079. Deleting index entry GETMDR~3.ASP in index $I30 of file 56079. Deleting index entry GE5FF7~1.XML in index $I30 of file 56081. Deleting index entry getmdrcdCAQM6ROW.xml in index $I30 of file 56081. Deleting index entry resume.dat in index $I30 of file 57809. Deleting index entry resume.dat.old in index $I30 of file 57809. Deleting index entry RESUME~1.OLD in index $I30 of file 57809. Index verification completed. Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode. thats what i got when i ran it.. edit: thats not the drive i need to scan though.. how do i change the drive it scans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is OS/Games/Programs. WARNING!  F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Deleting index entry GetMDRCDPOSTURL[3].aspx in index $I30 of file 56079. Deleting index entry GETMDR~3.ASP in index $I30 of file 56079. Deleting index entry GE5FF7~1.XML in index $I30 of file 56081. Deleting index entry getmdrcdCAQM6ROW.xml in index $I30 of file 56081. Deleting index entry resume.dat in index $I30 of file 57809. Deleting index entry resume.dat.old in index $I30 of file 57809. Deleting index entry RESUME~1.OLD in index $I30 of file 57809. Index verification completed. Errors found.  CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode. thats what i got when i ran it.. Did you tell chkdsk to fix the problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 no i didnt and i forgot to mention that it scanned the "wrong" drive i need it to scan my external one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I think we need to learn some thing else before using check disk: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=how+to+use+chkdsk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 k its scanning and fixing my ext. drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 You could try the dd command in a live linux disc to copy from one drive to another, but the file will still be corrupt even on the new drive since it makes a bit for bit copy. If the disc itself is damaged, chances are it will not copy anyway. You should do as Sparda said and run chkdsk and do a repair. You can specify the drive in the command. chkdsk driveletter: /R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 k now that chkdisk is working on it, is it any linux distro that has the dd command? and is there not a program out there tha copies the files over? the chkdisk is on phase 4 and is going slowly.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I wouldn't touch DD in this instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 I wouldn't touch DD in this instance. so do you recommend just the regular windows copy file thingy? edit: i have acronis, but imaging the whole drive will still give me the same problem... i assume Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 so do you recommend just the regular windows copy file thingy? That would be best for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 k i'll let you know how it goes after chkdisk is finished.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 i appologize for the double post but chkdisk hasnt moved since the last post.. im kinda worried.. edit: k it just moved i appologize again edit #2: it froze up on me so i had to retry it.. edit#3: chkdsk is done here are the results The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is Music/Movies/Backups. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... File verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... Index verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)... Security descriptor verification completed. Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap. Windows has made corrections to the file system. Â Â 78148192 KB total disk space. Â Â 50083136 KB in 10133 files. Â Â Â Â Â Â 9516 KB in 2054 indexes. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 0 KB in bad sectors. Â Â Â Â Â Â 87452 KB in use by the system. Â Â Â Â Â Â 65536 KB occupied by the log file. Â Â 27968088 KB available on disk. Â Â Â Â Â Â 4096 bytes in each allocation unit. Â Â 19537048 total allocation units on disk. Â Â Â Â 6992022 allocation units available on disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 ok so after the checkdisk i started to copy the files over... and the copy locked up and froze, there are some bad files in my music folder, and there are 60+ gigs of music.. is there a program to copy the folders? cause it doesnt work with the regular windows one.. edit: sorry for the tripple post.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 If it keeps stopping, it might be either the HDD you are copying from is just bad(hardware issue/controller problem), the HDD you are copying to is bad or going, or there is some sort of communication error or buffer issue between the two devices. I'd say copy little parts at a time, not all at once, and see if they helps any. Also, don't interupt the process, just start copying and let it finish before working on anything else on the computer. Might be too much for it to handle, depending on what/how you have your pc set up and what you are doing at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 If it keeps stopping, it might be either the HDD you are copying from is just bad(hardware issue/controller problem), the HDD you are copying to is bad or going, or there is some sort of communication error or buffer issue between the two devices. I'd say copy little parts at a time, not all at once, and see if they helps any. Also, don't interupt the process, just start copying and let it finish before working on anything else on the computer. Might be too much for it to handle, depending on what/how you have your pc set up and what you are doing at the time. it is an older hdd so it could be going, and i think some random files are corrupt because it will get stuck on one song, then i'll try just copying the song, and everytime it doesnt wanna copy over so i just delete it.. i'm doing it slowly now (10 files/copy) and it seems to be working fine.. thanks ~silent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bit Hunter Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 the xcopy is made for coping stuff from damaged floppy, so i guess it could work in your case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 http://roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29 MRGRIM pointed this out, looks like it would do what you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 i'll give both of those a go in the future... i found that it was the hdd dying from when my old man knocked it off of my desk so some of the files were messed up.. but thanks for all the tips everyone, i got all of my files copied the "old fasioned" way.. took 2 hours but it was worth it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Old Fashoin way? What copying one by one?... Anyways if this ever happens again I would suggest SpinRight from GRC.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Last time I ran spinrite the disc caught fire... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 Last time I ran spinrite the disc caught fire... My SpinRite personal score: SpinRite 1 - bad sectors 5 It can work, but only if the drive isn't so far gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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