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Hello All,

I am trying to fix my friend's Sony VAIO laptop which I think may have a dying hard drive.
Naturally, he did not back up his files, so my current project is trying to rescue the picture and video files he has on it of his newborn daughter.
I can copy some of the files onto an SD card and read them. However, trying to copy the rest of them from the laptop gives me an error message suggesting possiblly corrupted files or an unreadable codec. I can open the files up on his laptop but I cannot copy them.
Any ideas on how I can bypass this roadblock before the laptop goes completely dead?

Thanks.

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  1. Remove the drive from the laptop.
  2. Install it in an external usb docking bay.
  3. Attache it to another system and boot that up.
  4. When it is recognized by the other system, run the disc check/repair tools on the external drive.
  5. Copy off the files. Some may not be recoverable, but most should be.
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