I have a 3TB Seagate hard drive that is about to die. Problem is there is ALOT of data on this thing I need to get off. I had it all backed up on a NAS but the backups on that thing got messed up. So I was going to just redo it. Reestablish the backup with a correct file structure. It was in the process of doing this that I discovered that my 3TB drive is dying. I can plug it in and browse the file structure. Sometimes I can even succeed in copying off a file or 2. But eventually the disk usage will shoot up to 100% and the file i/o will drop to 0. Once that happens forget it. You're not getting anything else off the disk unless you unplug it, wait a few minutes, and plug it back in.
Other than data recovery, anyone have an idea on how I can pull the data off of this drive before it croaks?
Other than data recovery, anyone have an idea on how I can pull the data off of this drive before it croaks?