I have a 500GB Hitachi hard drive that for some reason, it won't let me copy files off of it. The little "transferring window" comes up and just freezes. How can I get my files off of that hard drive? I'm suspecting that the hard drive may be "dead", is that correct or plausible? Thanks in advance!
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ddrescue - Get a linux boot distro and use (gnu) ddrescue ti copy data off the drive. If it fails/gies slow, restartbit in reverse. Repeat until all data recovered ir you run out of patience.
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Yep, sounds like it's failing or started to fall. Try to use a tool like dd to create a image with everything you can without trying to write data to it (which might be part of the reason it freezes).
If you've got Linux it should be available by default or in your repository. A version for Windows cab be obtained here: http://chrysocome.net/
The basic idea is to create a full image as soon as possible, then work off that to get your data.
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