Can't find old HDD

[Scott(0)]

Regarding cloning the drive

If you clone the drive there's also a *chance* that the problem will fix itself, sort of. If the problem is bad sectors, for example, most clone software has the ability to deal with that, either by reading the bad sectors repeatedly until the information is extracted successfully or skipping the bad sector altogether. Which may not be so bad in your situation. If just a minor insignificant number of sectors are skipped in an entire movie file you probably won't really notice it ... too much.