Now I am pretty sure that everyone who own a external USB storage device, like a pen drive or a hard drive (which everyone does), may face this problem at-least once in their digital lifetime. This particular data transfer/copy/backup error (which I've suffered through a LOT, until just recently I found the fix) is one of the most frustrating and irritating errors your usb storage device could ever give you. This is a windows prone error so mac and linux users may wanna turn around.
What is this error?
Can't read from the source file or disk, is an error that windows give you when you try to cut/copy a particular file from your external usb storage to another storage (both external or internal). And no matter how many times you try and what third-party tool you try to copy it with, its still gonna give you the error or is gonna be a very hard deal to get through.
The error dialog looks something like this:
Now most of you after continuously getting this error may perform a check disk, from the command prompt of your PC for finding any bad sectors in your drive, and most of the times you wouldn't get any. And that messes with our heads even more...
So how to fix it?
To copy the file thats giving you this problem, you'd first need a software named "EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard". This is a magical and life saving tool, that can not only recover and copy any file we are having trouble copying with, but can also recovery any DELETED file, that has been emptied from the recycle bin.
So obviously the Step-1 would be to download this software. After downloading the software, install it.
Step-2. Launch the software, the first window will ask you to select the file type you want the program to look for like text file .txt, document files .doc or executable files .exe etc or you may simply select 'All File Types' to look for all files, after selecting the file type, click on 'Next'.
Step-3. Then it will ask you to choose the drive you want to recover files from, after selecting the drive, Click on 'Scan'.
Now this (FIRST) scan is just a normal low priority scan it would take just few seconds to scan and will give you the result list, for us to recover our file, we'll have to have a Deep scan, so after the first scan process is complete (which wouldn't take long), on the bottom left side you would find the 'Deep Scan' button, simply click that and the deep scan process will be initiated.
