I'd like to file restore from my ipod

Hi guys, I'm desperate for some help.
I lost my hard drive with all my music + video clips due to a heads failure.
My ipod classic has 9724 songs on it, which I would like to restore. (My itunes shows having 9950 in the library.)
My itunes sees my ipod, but of course cannot see the original folders and files. (They're dead.)
I would like to copy all files off my ipod onto a new external hard drive.
My windows explorer can (sometimes) see my ipod classic as a drive. When I browse through the ipod_control directory, I can see music, which has 50 folders: F00 through to F49.
When I browse these folders I can see files. Many many files. They amount to 111GB of data.
When I try to copy these files manually, I get "Cannot copy ICYI: The parameter is incorrect" - ICYI being a filename.
Searching google tells me that, most likely, that filename has an illegal character. I cannot see that to be true.
Every file on my music folder has this problem but all the games folders, etc, copied fine. (Figures...)
What would you do?
Can I do this with a simple program?
Can I do this manually?
If no to the above, can I do this with a paid service, eg icloud or something ?
Help is appreciated.

That sounds like a failed disc read. This is probably too long for you too but see Corrupt iPod classic,
The SyncToy backup tool I suggest in the first link is handy for reading data from "troubled" drives. Unlike Windows Explorer it moves on to the next item after a read error. Multiple passes may recover most of the data.
tt2

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