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suddenly could not access folders in old drive, explorer not respondng
I bought an IDE-to-usb adaptor for my old hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, 40gb, model ST340016A) from my old windows xp computer (around year 2003-2007), which is partitioned (20/20 gigs i think). When i first plugged it in i was asked to check the disk, but i didn't. Instead, i browsed different files and folders in the "data" partition and i was able to access most of it without encountering any slow down/problems. Then i accessed the os partition and was still able to view some files and folders, but when i got to open the Program Files folder it suddenly slowed down. It took too long for the green bar to fill the address bar so i just killed the operation by pressing crtl-alt-del. I cant remember if i also safely removed the hdd or if i just unplugged it w/o safely removing, but when i plugged it back in, everything slowed down. First i was able to access some folders (not tried files) in the data partition but after a while of repeating it (cause i always end up killing the operation), now the first few layers of folders just takes too long to open, and the pictures folder (which is the 3rd or 4th layer from the root) just makes windows explorer not respond. I think i even got the "the request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" message after waiting to see what happens while explorer was "not responding."
I tried running chkdsk on the OS partition, but its still slow and i think it just deleted some files so i'm afraid of running the same on the "data" partition. I hope my drive isnt dying yet. Pls help! Would love to be able to back up some of the files.