guys, i know you could help me on this important matter. one of my previous xternal hd is having an I/O device error when i tried to play or watch my files. the dish is working by that i means it still spinning and i could see all the files within it, however, i cant open or copy these files and folders. here is where your helps would be great appreciated.

what is the best app/s out there that could help me to recover all of the data.

my hd is partition into 3 and my hd is FAT32: e, f, and g with totla of 120gb. i have over 20gbs of music and important notes, and photos that means a lot. i run win xp and this is the error message

"F:\ Audio is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."

! Read error in the file F:\[pdf]_PHOTOGRAPHY_(ADVANCED).zip
! The request could not be performed because of an I\O device error.
! Read error in the file F:\[pdf]_PHOTOGRAPHY_(ADVANCED).zip
! The request could not be performed because of an I\O device error.

they are not lost. i could see them touch them with my mouse and anything i have tried from your suggestions and others are not working at this point. and yes, i just would like to take or be able to copy them and place them on the new NTFS hd from seagate that i just bought.

here is the message when i tried to copy or move them to new location(hd) "Error copying file or folder... Cannot create or replace audio: the request could not be performed because of the I/O device error."

here is what happened when i clicked on the folders: G:\Image is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. Also, when i put my mouse over the folders, and it said the folders are empty, but i could see all of my files of words, zip, apps and some images that are not inside the folder. however, the according to the my computer, the hd is and the contents are still there.

but here is the twist of them all. i turned the xhd on first then turn my pc on... so it would boot up and the 1st partition of:

G: one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. you may cancel the disk check but it is strongly recommended that you continue. windows will now check the disks. volume serial number is 9845-12CB
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2 percent completed...

that two percent just there, another words, nothing is working, or moving even last night I let it stay all night and it was just at 2 percent and nothing else.

when i Right click my computer --> properties --> hardware --> device manager --> disk drives, does it say that "this device is working properly.

i was suggested to run and fixed on the safe mode...