I'm trying to create a backup of my 12+ years old hdd (just installed a second fresh hdd after copying 1tb worth of data to an external drive) and sometimes during copying the entire PC freezes, the mouse and keys don't respond so I have to reboot. I checked the files I'm trying to copy and they seem to be readable/not corrupted, everything goes smoothly when I try again so it happens randomly. Is this due to a faulty hdd or is this some kind of system error? The second hdd is from a laptop (2,5 1tb from Samsung st1000lm024). Maybe this is what's causing issues during copying?The pc is over a decade old and has win xp installed.
>>101537322copy everything over with teracopy first then with gsmart do a quick and then extended testafter that only use that drive for things you dont care about until it dies, which will be soon
>>101537546Okay, will do, thanks. I usually drag and drop hope it's fine this way, I only need media files (text, docs, video, audio files) . Usually when a hdd hangs/freezes that usually means that the file/folder is corrupted and innacessible which happened to some of my external hdds. But this time all files are intact, even compared them with 2 copies on 2 different externals. Weird, but nonetheless I will copy everything and scan it afterwards.I wonder if this drive will miraclously last for 5 more years because it outlived all drives I had.
>>101537322111k power-on hours is a long time. Your drive lived a good life, surprised Samsung drives lasted this long. The drive will still work for at least 1000 hours more, so you can use it for seeding Linux distributions with qBittorrent or whatever.
>>101538110I'm surprised as well, almost 13 years, I wonder if it's possible for a drive to last 20 years. Especially considering that samsungs drives are actually seagates hdds under disguise ("ST" letters is a dead giveaway) which are mostly crap and barely last 2-5 years. I am still seeding using some ancient version utorrent. I just copied about 80% of files and the pc is starting to freezes more often. But it affect the oldest files which I backed up several times before. Hopefully I will be able to finish the process.
>>101538459>I wonder if it's possible for a drive to last 20 yearsi'd be surprised if there aren't drives that have lasted even 30 years, the problem is not many people are using the same drive for more than around 15 yearsi've got an old 500GB HDD that lasted around 12 years and still seemed good when i switched
>>101537322>The second hdd is from a laptop (2,5 1tb from Samsung st1000lm024)Chances are it's closer to death then the venerable hd103 you are trying to back up. Laptop HDDs were always joke categories, even the cheapest SSDs outperform them a thousandfold.Get a new drive, 1tb drives cost fucking nothing nowadays.>>101537676> I usually drag and drop hope it's fine this way, I only need media files (text, docs, video, audio files) .When you do that Windows will start computing the time it takes and starts reading all folder and file metadata which takes ten times longer than a simply folder copy.At least use total commander or something with the setting "keep original file dates on copy". But even better use teracopy or robocopy / xcopy, and set them to ignore errors and just copy as fast as they can. then do a full file compare.I personally use Total Commander since it has a powerful folder synchronizer that can also check the file data, so very useful.
>>101538531Yes it seems that smaller hdds (500 gb or lessl) tend to be more reliable.>>101539357Ok, there's definitely something wrong with this Samsung drive thought. I just copied 20 gb from one partition to another, the hdd was slowing down but didn't crash. But when I try to copy the same files to samsung hdd at certain point it freezes to death so I have to rebooted. Weird. I do have total commander. I'll try it out. I guess. I will have resort to my external hdd which never let me down. That samsung drive seems to fuck up my system because all files on my old hdd are fine.
>>101537322Do you not know what Printscrn is?
>>101539357>Get a new drive, 1tb drives cost fucking nothing nowadays.Oh, I forgot about. Yes, I definitely need one 1tb cmr drive. Hope these are still around because there are so many smrs. >>101539908Sorry about that. I do. It's just unplugged it from the web for safety reasons. I always do it when transfering lots of important data and use another computer.
>>101539357>even the cheapest SSDs outperform them a thousandfold.Now that we have SSDs, yes.>>101539628>at certain point it freezes to deathbad sectors do that to Explorer, it is extremely infuriating
>>101540264>bad sectors do that to Explorer, it is extremely infuriatingYes, that seems the to be the case. But I just found a solution. I copy a smaller portion of files from one partition to another (the hdd is split in two). Then I copy them into the new hdd. So far it works, albeit much slower. Because transfering files directly from my old drive to the newer one is what causes this particular issue which makes me think there's something wrong with the newer drive.I'll do the same procedure while using my external drive. If the problem persists then yeah my old hdd is dead despite not looking that bad (only 11 reallocated sectors). I'll buy another 1tb 3'5 hdd and replace that newer one.
>>101537322I have some issues to, my hdd is recognized but I can't get it to boot and need those files. Any suggestions? I've been thinking of lightly hitting.
>>101541028Don't hit it it's not gonna help. Better get another drive and bring it to the specialist who has the tools and special utilities designed to restore (if possible) and back up problematic drives. If you're lucky then he'll retrieve all the files or at least most of them. I had one faulty 3tb seagate barracuda with hundreds of bad sectors and red status and the repair guy could retrieve about 70% of data. He didn't recover lost files due to high cost thought, wonder if it's still possible.
>>101537322It's a 1TB HDD you used for 111,628 hourscome on bro let it go it's done its job and then some
