ATI Rescue Media can't back up my /Program Files/Steam folder
Hey guys, recently my OS disk got corrupted so I used another computer to create a True Image bootable USB. The plan is to use ATIRM to back up the corrupted drive, format it, then do a fresh reinstall. I could then restore my data from the backup image. After booting into ATIRM, I did a file/folder backup of /Program Files, /Program Files (x86), /Users, and /Windows, as that's all I really need to keep, since the reinstall will recreate all the OS data. It's going along just fine right now, (3 minutes left) except for one folder that I had to ignore, /Program Files (x86)/Steam, which ATI is stating is "corrupted" (it isn't.)
My hypothesis for why ATI is failing to backup that folder is because of it's size. I had a whole ton of Steam games installed, that folder took up the majority of space on the disk. (Couple hundred GBs) I'd rather not have to go and redownload my couple hundred gigabytes of Steam games, so I'm gonna try to see if there's a way to image it before clearing the disk. Any of you guys run into this issue before?
Thanks for the help.

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Hi, thanks for the reply.
The disk that is corrupted is a 2TB disk that contains a Windows installation as well as all my windows data, unfortunately. (I have other HDs for other operating systems in my rig.) It's backing up to a 1TB usb 3.0 external HD, as only ~900 or so gigabytes are used on my 2TB drive.
I can't just boot up and move the data onto another hard drive, as my OS doesn't boot. I could create a bootable windows stick and boot from there to copy, but I figured it would be faster to use ATIRM. Maybe I can do that after ATIRM boots up everything else, though.
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Have you considered booting from a Linux live CD or DVD - this would give you access to your Steam files if the drive is readable and you could try doing the copy from in that environment using the default file explorer.
Linux live DVD's are often given away on the front of Linux magazines if you don't want to download an ISO image.
See https://livecdlist.com/ for a list of Live distributions and sizes.
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