How to eliminate potential problems on USB Powered Drives and keep them healthy

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This is the best route to recovery your data off of the External hard drive… dowload and burn Ubunuu to a CD.  purchase a new external hard drive.  restart your computer and boot off of the disc.  Once in Ubuntu, mount both drives and copy one folder at a time.  This will take a long time, but all your data will be intact.