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HDD crashing

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Goi

Diamond Member
Hi,
My Seagate 7200.8 250GB SATA HDD seems to be crashing really bad, and I'm frantically trying to backup my data to my other drives before deciding on what to do(reformat/rma/etc). However, I'm having problems doing so because it would freeze the system too often. Smaller files usually transfer ok, but so far files larger than say 500MB will hang the system before the transfer is over. Is there any way I could split up those files for transfer or some other way of backing up?

Thanks!
 
It could just be taking a long time, rather than crashing. For one thing, a HD which is producing tons of errors will go through a massive amount of retries, making a copy take a very long time. "Hangs"due to this sometimes terminate after a long time. If you really want to get the data saved you might have to bear with this. In my own experience though, if Windows cannot get through a file without an unrecoverable error, it will not go on to the next file. You have to do them one by one and keep track.

Splitting the files with a program will have the same problem when it gets to the error spots, so I don't think that could help.
 
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