I'd recommend running a NDD first on disk errors, and then copy.

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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Robert Bowen - Information Services - SUNY Farmingdale wrote:

> Hello list,
>
>    I have a crashed Hard Drive that I need to recover files off of.  When I
> say crashed it is not unaccessible, it has many bad sectors so some files
> are unrecoverable.
>
> What I am looking for is some kind of utility that will copy the good files
> and not give me an error message or abort when I copy a file that is
> unrecoverable.  Anything important I have on backup tape or CD, there are
> some goodies on there I would like to copy to another Hard Drive (i.e. wav
> files, screen savers, shareware) nothing I couldn't just download again but
> I would like to save the time.
>
> I have tried zipping up directories on the drive using Winzip but it aborts
> when it finds a bad file.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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