external hard drive issue

[sevendet]

just recently bought a lap top got rid of my desktop
switched from vista to 7
problem is one of my ex hdd freezes up windows explorer and sometimes loads but freezes up when i click a folder in it
i cant afford to lose the stuff on it does anyone have a sloution that could help me
its an old my book essentials 320 gb

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Have you performed any defragmentation of that disk recently? It might be worth a go.

Regards,
Golden

 

[sevendet]

i will try that

 

[sevendet]

so i did that and tried to transfer a small folder about 20 mb and the transfer stopped at about 9 percent
starts off transfering fast the freezes and transfer rate drops into the low kb/s like right now its at 92 kb and still not moving

 

[echrada]

It is worth it to scan your external hard drive for errors, so that you could make alternative arrangements in good time if errors are found. Free software here

HDDGuru

 

[Golden]

After running that check, you can also try a chkdsk. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start Orb, type cmd, then right-click on cmd and choose "Run as administrator".
2. Change to the drive you want to check (e.g. if it is E drive, type E: <hit enter>)
3. Type chkdsk /R <hit enter>

This may take some time, so be patient with that. When it finishes, post the resultant text here for us to look at.

Regards,
Golden