Recent content by MentalParadox

Alright, I'll give that a go. Thanks so much!

Interesting. Could I use this Linux boot CD and still keep Windows on my PC? I have zero intention of switching to another OS just for salvaging one drive. If this can be a one-time thing, I will try it. But no way I'm doing it if this means losing my current OS for good.

I wasn't insisting on anything. I said I did not understand why you mentioned booting from a CD. Now I get it. Just purely out of curiosity, why are Windows-based tools in your opinion "unintelligent"? Is there a factual basis for this, or is this purely OS tribalism?

Forgive me for being a layman, but Live CD you can boot from? My issue is with an external hard drive, not my PC's built-in hard drive. My PC boots and runs just fine. Unless I'm not quite getting what this is supposed to be doing.

It says it's Linux only.

That's what I was afraid of... I'll salvage what I can, and keep more than one backup in the future.

Okay, so I have this fairly old 1,5 TB Lacie drive from 2013. Last week, it started giving me an error when trying to explore the drive. The few times it does let me in, it's EXTREMELY slow when opening folders and files (if it works at all) and causes regular Explorer crashes. So yeah, a dying...