Bypass Bad Blocks And Copy Folder(s)

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I have a drive with some bad blocks and when I try to move or copy one
or more folders that have a file inside with the bad block. It seems
to be able to determine this prior to the actual start of the copy so
at least I don't waste 2 hours to find out it bombs out mid way (at
least this is a more rare occurence) But when I select 100 folders and
get the error I have to break out smaller and smaller folder selections
to determine what folder had at least 1 file that can not be copied
intact. With the drive going bad and thousands of folders to move I
was hoping there was a registry setting somewhere that could tell XP
not to stop the cut and paste of folders when a bad block is
encountered but to instead bypass the file or files and move everything
else. I am hesitant about running a disk repair on this until I've
been able to get as much recoverable data off the drive as possible so
I am also wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with 200GB
drives and XP chkdsk. Looks like scandskw is no longer part of XP.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.

....mirsk
 
I have a drive with some bad blocks and when I try to move or copy one
or more folders that have a file inside with the bad block. It seems
to be able to determine this prior to the actual start of the copy so
at least I don't waste 2 hours to find out it bombs out mid way (at
least this is a more rare occurence) But when I select 100 folders and
get the error I have to break out smaller and smaller folder selections
to determine what folder had at least 1 file that can not be copied
intact. With the drive going bad and thousands of folders to move I
was hoping there was a registry setting somewhere that could tell XP
not to stop the cut and paste of folders when a bad block is
encountered but to instead bypass the file or files and move everything
else. I am hesitant about running a disk repair on this until I've
been able to get as much recoverable data off the drive as possible so
I am also wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with 200GB
drives and XP chkdsk. Looks like scandskw is no longer part of XP.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.

...mirsk
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xcopy /c continues copying if and error occurs
 
There is a freeware program called Roadkill's Unstopable Copier. Maybe this
will help.
Louis
 
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