Recent I had to transfer several hundred megabytes of media files from one large external drive to another. With Windows Copy the job just kept crashing. I tried the venerable but still effective XXCopy [1] but it fared no better. I then remembered a utility called Unstoppable Copier that had been recommended by subscriber George Rakocsi that I had never got around to checking out. It seemed the perfect tool for the job. According to the website Unstoppable Copier "allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end." Well I’m pleased to say Unstoppable Copier worked perfectly. As it turns out just one file was corrupted out of the 2700 files on the disk and that’s what was causing Windows Copy to fail. After that incident do you think I’m going to recommend Unstoppable Copier? You bet and not only for problem copying but for recovering partly corrupted files as well. It’s just the thing for getting your information off scratched CDs and DVDs, aging floppies and failing hard drives. Don’t expect it to perform miracles though; some disks are just too physically damaged to allow data recovery. Freeware, All Windows versions, 67KB.
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http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm [2]
http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html
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