My HDD/SSD hit the floor at the airport

[Rockman413]

I fly to a city and spent hours recording with local musicians, mixing, and mastering and I get around 80 tracks ready.

My client want me to fly back to our city and copy the 80 tracks to my client, but the HDD/SDD which contains that 80 final mix tracks fall from the desk and hit the floor at the security check of the airport... When I got back to my studio, yes that HDD/SDD can still be read and I can still copy all the 80 audio tracks/files out, but can I trust that copied 80 audio tracks/files?

Should I listen thru all that 80 audio tracks one by one? It will take a lot of time...
(I have a experience of copying files using a crap USB stick, yes audio files can be copied using that USB stick but one audio file got corrupted : half length of that audio turns into white noise. White noise are easily found, but how about some hard-to-find problems such as a range of frequency are missing at extreme conditions?) (I've posted a similar post but that's focusing on technical side, now this is for practical side)

Thank you

 

[Fishrrman]

Here's what I'd suggest:

Just copy the files to another drive.
If there's a "fault" with any of the files, the finder won't copy them.
But if ALL the files "copy over" without problems, I doubt there's anything wrong with them.

IF the finder won't copy the files, I have another suggestion:
Download CarbonCopyCloner from here:
http://www.bombich.com/download.html
CCC is FREE to download and use for 30 days.
Now, use CCC to "clone" the contents of the damaged drive to another drive.

WHY you want to try this:
IF there are damaged files, the finder will just "quit" and the copy process will end. The finder won't tell you which files stopped the process - it will just "stop".

BUT -- CCC won't stop the clone if it encounters a damaged file.
Instead, it will make a note of the damaged file name, pass over it, and keep copying the GOOD files.
At the end of the process, CCC will give you a list of any damaged files it finds.

IF you do this, it will identify and isolate any bad files, and copy over the good ones.

 

[Rockman413]

Thank you , this is very helpful.

But I have copied them using finder without seeing any problems or getting any error message, meaning I can trust everything is great and nothing is damaged ?
[doublepost=1509817820][/doublepost]I still want to know the answers to this question:
if any physical shocking/damage to a clip/sector and firmware will know and when writing, firmware will skip that
Or
firmware only record/note bad sector when it is running, meaning at power off status any physical damage will not be noted by firmware of SSD?