RobTheSwede
Active member
- Apr 1, 2023
- 25
Hello,
I've been trying to emigrate data from a bunch of old drives to my new computer;
and it's mostly been going well, but when I got to one of them, an old WD Red 3TB drive
that I ever only used as a storage for my old computer I noticed something strange;
about 10-20% of the video files (No other file typ it seems) seems to have been
corrupted. Corrupted in such a way that VLC can't play them, and when I try to
copy them to my new computer's hard drive I get an error message like this:
"Error 0x80070057 failed to copy file" (and something with the parameters..)
Now, I googled that error, and read up about it as much as I could, and looked
for youtube tutorials about it etc, and did all that I could to fix it. Nothing worked.
I eventually gave up with the corrupted files and saved what I could (which
was most of it) and reformatted the drive afterwards, which went well. I also
did various tests to see if it was something physically wrong with the drive but
everything seemed okay with it. At this point I considered myself lucky that this
particular drive didn't contain anything extremely important, and what I lost
I could live with. So.. on to the next one... which.. also happened to
be a WD Red drive.. but this one just a few years old, and on 4TB, and much
less used than the other one, so surely, nothing could be wrong with this
one as well. But to my great horror the exact same thing happened to this one.
And this was worse. Because this drive contains important files.
Just like the first WD Red drive, this one contained a random amount of
corrupted files on the drive, anything from 10-20% randomly corrupted and
giving the exact same error as the other drive - and once again only video files were affected.
I just don't understand what has caused this, from the drives working perfectly well
since I removed them from my old computer, less than a year ago, and they
have just been resting safely in a box up until now when I hook them up again
to transfer the files..
On the 4TB drive, I did the checkdisk repair thing, that I was adviced to do, and it
said I had corrupted files, but it failed to repair it. I just don't know what to do
any more, had it been less important files on this drive I would have just given
up on it, but I really want to do everything that is possible to save these files..
So here I am, imploring for some tips from you experts.
Any help is much appreciated, as this drive contains some very sentimental
memories that I would be very saddened not being able to save.
/Rob
I've been trying to emigrate data from a bunch of old drives to my new computer;
and it's mostly been going well, but when I got to one of them, an old WD Red 3TB drive
that I ever only used as a storage for my old computer I noticed something strange;
about 10-20% of the video files (No other file typ it seems) seems to have been
corrupted. Corrupted in such a way that VLC can't play them, and when I try to
copy them to my new computer's hard drive I get an error message like this:
"Error 0x80070057 failed to copy file" (and something with the parameters..)
Now, I googled that error, and read up about it as much as I could, and looked
for youtube tutorials about it etc, and did all that I could to fix it. Nothing worked.
I eventually gave up with the corrupted files and saved what I could (which
was most of it) and reformatted the drive afterwards, which went well. I also
did various tests to see if it was something physically wrong with the drive but
everything seemed okay with it. At this point I considered myself lucky that this
particular drive didn't contain anything extremely important, and what I lost
I could live with. So.. on to the next one... which.. also happened to
be a WD Red drive.. but this one just a few years old, and on 4TB, and much
less used than the other one, so surely, nothing could be wrong with this
one as well. But to my great horror the exact same thing happened to this one.
And this was worse. Because this drive contains important files.
Just like the first WD Red drive, this one contained a random amount of
corrupted files on the drive, anything from 10-20% randomly corrupted and
giving the exact same error as the other drive - and once again only video files were affected.
I just don't understand what has caused this, from the drives working perfectly well
since I removed them from my old computer, less than a year ago, and they
have just been resting safely in a box up until now when I hook them up again
to transfer the files..
On the 4TB drive, I did the checkdisk repair thing, that I was adviced to do, and it
said I had corrupted files, but it failed to repair it. I just don't know what to do
any more, had it been less important files on this drive I would have just given
up on it, but I really want to do everything that is possible to save these files..
So here I am, imploring for some tips from you experts.
Any help is much appreciated, as this drive contains some very sentimental
memories that I would be very saddened not being able to save.
/Rob
