When a hard drive starts to give us problems and data gets corrupted, we quickly get a new replacement drive, reinstall Windows and hope that reconnecting the broken drive and using the typical "cut and paste" strategy will be enough to move our personal files to the new drive. But it soon turns out that this is not the case.
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How to copy large amounts of files in Windows
The problem is that if the hard drive is experiencing read/write issues, data corruption, or other physical problems, the Windows Cut and Paste feature may not be the best solution because it may take hours or even days to skip bad files, or the feature may not work at all.
This is where Robocopy can help. Robocopy, short for "Robust File Copy", is a command-line copy utility for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows Vista that is more powerful than the usual "cut and paste" function and even more powerful than many other utilities you can find on the Internet.
Robocopy may be your best chance to recover files from a dying hard drive because it's easy to use, can be easily configured to quickly skip unrecoverable files with errors, because it's more efficient, because it copies absolutely everything on a hard drive, because it can continue after a lost connection if you move files to a shared folder on the network, and simply because the utility works better.
