inflames988
12-19-2007, 01:28 PM
i have a WD 3200KS SE 16 drive (320gb, 7200rpm, 16mb cache) that is slowly but surely biting the dust. Anyways, i had them ship me a new one first so I could transfer the files before i send the old one back, but im having a bit of trouble transferring.
The drive causes my machine to come up with a BSOD referring to "nvata.sys", i know it's the drive because the BSOD only comes up if the drive is connected. Anyways, the drive is just about full (~300GB). i use it to store .ISO's of all my important discs (windows OS cd's, etc) since i couldnt bring all these CDs to college with me. So its full of 700mb and 4.7GB files that take a fair amount of time to transfer (since the drive is dying). Usually I can transfer two or three before the BSOD pops up on me, but it seems to be getting more and more frequent.
Do you guys think it would be better to keep trying to transfer these files in windows, or to try some type of ghosting program (like the one WD provides) and just try to copy the whole drive in one go? any other suggestions for trying to get files off a (dying) drive? one of my friends told me about a "Freezer trick" where you put the drive in some type of container in a freezer but i was skeptical (and thought it might make things worse). Thanks!
The drive causes my machine to come up with a BSOD referring to "nvata.sys", i know it's the drive because the BSOD only comes up if the drive is connected. Anyways, the drive is just about full (~300GB). i use it to store .ISO's of all my important discs (windows OS cd's, etc) since i couldnt bring all these CDs to college with me. So its full of 700mb and 4.7GB files that take a fair amount of time to transfer (since the drive is dying). Usually I can transfer two or three before the BSOD pops up on me, but it seems to be getting more and more frequent.
Do you guys think it would be better to keep trying to transfer these files in windows, or to try some type of ghosting program (like the one WD provides) and just try to copy the whole drive in one go? any other suggestions for trying to get files off a (dying) drive? one of my friends told me about a "Freezer trick" where you put the drive in some type of container in a freezer but i was skeptical (and thought it might make things worse). Thanks!