My wife dropped my laptop and the computer slowed to almost a screatching halt. I tried to run Spinright but it wants to run for 3 months. It got slowed from all the errors at around 50% .....I then tried chkdsk and it seemed to stay in the 50% area for days. I really just need to backup my pictures, music and a few misc filles. .... I have a external HD and I tried backing up from windows but it keeps stopping due to read errors. Is there a way to back up without having to go through all of the files individually. like for backup to either skip the error files. and can I do this from DOs ..I cant seem to get past chkdsk...