I should mentioned at this time that the USB HDD is less than a year old and has spent 95 per cent of its operational life sitting on top of a PC case, so the corruption was not at all expected.

These smaller files copied without issue - it was the main drive image, a 80GB virtual hard disk (VHD), that managed to transfer around 8GB of itself before the OS threw an error. So i came across This ForumI which someone suggests this program Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier and i have it running right now. When Windows 7 makes a backup image, it actually generates several files containing system and partition metadata, more if you happen to have a couple of drives. So one of my data drives is getting Caution on crystal disk info YAY and i need to back it up but cant backup with Paragon so i need to just copy everything before i try to repair it further. In the end the precaution was unneeded, but I decided keeping the image around might prove useful in the future so, instead of deleting it, I tried copying it to a more permanent location on my server. Before I did, I made an image of the HDD to an external USB drive using Windows 7’s backup tools.

Recently I had to send my UX32VD notebook back to ASUS for repairs under warranty (which turned out to be a completely painless experience, thankfully).

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