If you’re in the ineviable position of having a failing hard drive in your machine, here’s a site that will help you diagnose the situation:
Failing hard drive sounds – Datacent.com
I hope you you’ve been doing regular backups.
I’ve gone the hardcore route using rsync via Cygwin with Windows Task Scheduler. I also used the free version of Syncback SE.
I recommend Cobian Backup, however.
Cobian is good because it lets me keep 4 copies of full backups on my external hard drive. It also runs as a service.
Glad I had a good backup a few weeks ago when I had to reformat.
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