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Best way of backing up files on a dying C drive?

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 08:43:25 No.1548515 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1548517

On WIndows 7, so most installers won't install

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 09:05:46 No.1548516 Report

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Put the hard drive in another computer and copy the files off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 09:09:41 No.1548517 Report

Quoted By: >>1548518

>>1548515
how dying is "dying"?
if it might crumble into dust any moment:
1. take out the drive physically and give it a usb casing
2. get a second blank external drive
3. stick the two into a linux system and clone the drive to the blank external drive using ddrescue
4. mount the cloned drive in linux and copy over the files

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Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 09:17:33 No.1548518 Report

Quoted By: >>1548532

>>1548517
freezes every few hours, crystaldisk shows this

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 10:34:24 No.1548520 Report

Quoted By: >>1548521

It's dying, that's kind of the point of backing up. The idea is to do it before the drive dies.

If it keeps freezing every couple hours, plan on backing up your most important shit first while you can not knowing if and when it finally does crap out and stops working at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 10:52:04 No.1548521 Report

Quoted By: >>1548522

>>1548520
Are there any programs that can create a backup of a C:/ drive?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 10:53:20 No.1548522 Report

Quoted By: >>1548535 >>1548560

>>1548521
Not while it's frozen, but the idea is that while it's working use Windows explorer and monitor it so that you continue the process when it glitches out and you have to re-start the copying process.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 13:07:58 No.1548532 Report

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>>1548518
yeah ddrescue it, you want to minimize any further wear to the drive while you still can read from it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 15:46:39 No.1548535 Report

Quoted By: >>1548636

>>1548522
>while it's working use Windows explorer
That's stupid, just stop, you're going to damage shit
Op, install Linux somehow, it's only to do this job, you can put it on a thumb drive or whatever. Then take a HDD bigger than your trashed drive and run ddrescue
I hate Linux, but this is the only correct choice. If your drive wasn't shitting itself you'd have some Windows choices, but here you are

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Nov 2025 19:01:59 No.1548560 Report

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>>1548522
>use Windows explorer
If OP insits on only using Win7, and copying files off, at least use Teracopy. It'll keep track of what has/hasn't copied, let you reattempt things that failed, and verify transfers

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Anonymous Fri 14 Nov 2025 06:26:17 No.1548636 Report

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>>1548535
I wouldn't say it's shitting itself. It's certainly worse but
I guess I'm learning how to install Linux

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 19 Nov 2025 03:56:22 No.1549155 Report

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Normally I'd also recommend Macrium Reflect, which comes with Hiren's BootCD, though truthfully I don't know how that would fare with a drive this bad

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