How to copy data from a damaged hard drive

If the health of one or more hard drives on your computer got worse and it is no more safe to store data on the drives, Kaspersky Security Cloud notifies you and offers you to copy data from these drives to other media.

To copy your data from damaged hard drives:

  1. Do one of the following:
    • If you receive a notification that the health of the hard drive got worse, click the Learn more button in the notification window.

      The Hard Drive Health Monitor window opens.

    • Click the Copy data button in the Hard Drive Health Monitor window.
  2. In the Copy important data window that opens, click the Start button.
  3. In the Select drive window that opens, select a good hard drive to copy data from the damaged drive.
  4. Click the Next button.

    The Select files and folders to copy window opens.

  5. Do one of the following:
    • Drag and drop files from Windows Explorer to the highlighted area of the Select files and folders to copy window.
    • Click the select them from the list link. In the Explorer window that opens, you can select files and folders to copy to the good hard drive.
  6. After adding all the files and folders you want to copy to the list, click the Next button.

    The Creating folder to copy data window opens.

  7. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Next button to create a new folder on the selected good hard drive and copy files and folders from the damaged drive to it.
    • Click the Change button to select an existing folder on the good drive and copy files and folders from the damaged drive to it.
  8. Do one of the following:
    • If the selected good drive has sufficient disk space to copy selected files and folders, click the Next button to start copying.
    • If the selected good drive has insufficient disk space to copy selected files and folders, click the Back button to select another good drive. Go back to step 7 of this guide.

Data copying begins.

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