Thanks Dave. I've tried the freeze-drive technique a few times over the years - I'm a retired pc builder and serviceman - but never had much luck with it on customer's munted drives.
But heat's not the problem with my drive, as you can see from the temperature in the pic.
No, I think a DOS solution is likely best, but I've forgotten all I ever learned about those processes.
So I thought I'd ask the DOS experts
. Mostly about the switches.
Like exclusions, say. There are a couple of 300GB sub-folders that I could probably leave for now, and try them again later when I've copied the more important stuff. Trouble is, they have long-ish names and I'm not sure Windows will let me rename them to something shorter.
Another thing is there's a lot of sub-folders within the source folder I want to copy from, and this source is also a sub-folder of the single-partition hard drive.
Here's a typical path: S:\Download\Chrome stuff - where S is the ailing 2TB drive, Download is the 900G storage folder, and Chrome stuff a typical folder inside Download.
However, S:\Download\Music has a dozen or so subfolders.
Is there an exclusion switch? And maybe also one that will pass over uncopyable folders? After all, there
are bad sectors on the drive
PS: Thanks, Patio, just found your post. That's a good suggestion.