Originally Posted by Myst

My hard drive is almost dead. I want to quickly get all the data off it and put onto a new hard drive. It seems to spin up ok (i can hear it spin up) but when reading data its like it reads a few bytes, then waits like 10 seconds, then reads a few more bytes (judging by the 'reading' noise the drive makes when its working). I think it will take months at this rate to transfer everything from one drive to another.. if it even works. But i have a hunch that I will get alot of 'cyclic redundancy check' errors before that even happens.

Any suggestions? I am using xcopy right now, and it has taken hours to move the first 10mb file (still working on it).

I can see the directory structure in explorer, but it takes at least 5 minutes to do so.