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First of all, take the HDD offline. That means power it off (Turn off your computer) and do not use it, by removing it AND unplugging GENTLY from your computer and putting it in a safe, dry non-vibrating place. If this drive is the only drive in your computer, you need to stop using that computer.

Second of all, you must purchase a new hard drive! Save up for it if you must, you must have a new Hard Drive or SSD to save the data.

Third, you must wait until you have purchased a new hard drive for the data. once you have done so, you can take your computer offline again, and reinstall/re-plug in your drive, then bring it back online and copy the data over to the new drive immediately!

I don't know why no one mentioned it yet, but those are very well known movies, albeit old, and will probably remain pretty easy to find in the near future.

If you still want to hold on to them you could download handbrake. This software lets you shrink a file size by a lot depending on the settings you're working with, and how much you want to compromise the quality.

Also in terms of cost, local storage will always be cheaper than web, mostly due to the fact that cloud storage is paid periodically, while you can buy a decent sized SSD for 40 euros

A lot of those are huge directors so I'm not sure they'll be lost. You could torrent though and share around.

Find some big school, and ask them if IT have any hdd unused in storage, we replaced all hdd with ssd in a 500 computer parc, so we had plenty of hard drive to spare, they were 500gb but it seems good enough for you, they can probably give them for free if they are cool guys. Of cours use them only as backup, as they are more prone to fail

Online storage ? Several hosts are based on nextcloud.

What about sharing them on some (or more than one) p2p network?

Option 1: Go to rutracker, and join the "guardians"

Option 2: get a raspberry pi or something, and maybe get a new hdd, and just seed

Option 3: get a backblaze bucket

These are just from the top of my head

Used HDD's are crazy cheap on eBay and such since everyone's moving to SSD.

Are you serious? Come on.

Get another drive and that's it.

You cannot afford it? I can spare one for you, pm me.

You want a different solution? There is none.