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    Question What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one ?

    Unfortunately I don’t have another drive to do this but thanks. If I did, I could try
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    Question What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one ?

    So what do I use then if I want to try and get everything, even from the bad sectors? I'm on windows. Like is copying every folder and file in the root directory copying anything that could be on a bad sector? I want to copy everything if possible regardless and if they are possible ways to...
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    Question What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one ?

    I don't use Linux so this would not work. Unless I can use this on Windows? Hence why I put the name clonezilla as it works for Windows.
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    Question What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one ?

    Thanks for all the responses. What about Clonezilla? Would that be better, quicker or easier? or it is used for something else entirely? Will Freefilesync help with bad sectors? Is there something like DDRescue which I see is for Linux but is there something like that for windows? Seems like a...
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    Question What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one ?

    Thanks for a reply. I got no space to do that. I did however put some of the most important data on to another drive I had. Couldn't I just transfer the data to the new drive using a program that would be faster than Windows Explorer? I mean why put it on my PC which has no space for all of it...
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    Question What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one ?

    Hello everyone. What is the quickest way to transfer 4TB of data from a failing external HDD to a new one? I'm not super knowledgeable on this stuff and I want to make sure I know what I am doing and know what I need to do. Both are WD Easystore drives. The old one seems to be having bad...