Specifiy a replacement file help

Chris H wrote on 8/9/2008, 8:06 PM

One of my WD external hard drives has gone bad. I am trying to save about a week's worth of work on two weddings. When I try to copy files from the bad hard drive to another hard drive I receive the message "cannot copy filename because of I/O device error.

How can I get these files (about 200 GB) from the bad drive to the good one? Is there a way to get around the I/O device error.

If not, I have been able to copy the veg files for both of my wedding projects. My question is this? If I recapture the tapes on another drive and try to open the veg files that have already been copied can I just "specify a replacement file"? I would rather lose a day recapturing tapes than lose a week's worth of work.

Thanks,

Chris

Comments

kentwolf wrote on 8/9/2008, 8:36 PM

>>...Is there a way to get around the I/O device error...

Aside from a data recovery company, typically there is no way around this. I/O error means input/output error. You are trying to output (copy) the files to another drive, thus the I/O error. Some people have mentioned putting drives in a freezer and stuff like that in an effort to get one last read on the drives.

>>...can I just "specify a replacement file"?

Assuming that the original files that were linked to the veg file are no longer available, this should work just fine.