Very frustrated just now.

Very frustrated just now.

I've been having issues with an internal drive on the Studio PC. The drive has the Win7 NTFS  GRAPHICS (G:) and VIDEO (V:) partitions on it, and I'm still having issues backing them up. Accessing individual files doesn't seem to be an issue, but trying to copy them over to an external drive hangs the copy very quickly, and causes Win7 to have "hiccups" with "Not responding messages on other applications.  I tried booting to Linux Mint instead but Dolphin had issues mounting the drive. Last year I had similar issues accessing Illustrator files on G: and eventually I moved the exported PDF files and my documents / exegesis stuff to a server on my MEDIA PC. Everything points to a dying internal hard drive, and I'm no longer sure about what I can about this.

This morning when I tried to boot the PC, windows seemed to take forever to boot, and trying then to reboot to Linux Mint (either on the PC or off a live disk) seemed to hang as well. I've just got it to boot in Win7 (finally).  I did a search on the net about issues related to copying from internal to external drives and one forum suggested it's an issue with older Western Digital drives (which it is). I have managed to create new folders on that drive, but maybe it's contributing to the issues.

Next I'm going to try copying stuff from G: over the local network to some spare space on the Media disk (I replaced an internal drive in that a couple of weeks back and it gained me an extra 1TB). If that works it'll slow, but it will at least back them up. I HAVE to make an effort to recover my graphic novel. The last backup it seems was in 2012.

*Suggestions please. *
#windows7 #harddrive