Hi i have a western digital my book and was transfering files from an old my book 500gb to a new 3TB one but the old My book has got the data currupted can i have some advise as to how to recover the files of the old my book

You need rely on professional file recovery tool to get them back. A popular one is asoftech data recovery program. This tool can deep scan your the computer and recover your lost files back without requiring extra skills. Here is the steps might be helpful to you:
1. Download this program on your compute. here is the link: http://www.asoftech.com/adr/
2. Install and start the program.
3. select the drive where your lost files located, click 'Next'. Now the scanning process will start to search the deleted files. After a while you will then get a list of recoverable files.
4. Press Recover to perform full recovery.

Hi opto_pus
I would use a recovery software :
Free Recuva works fine : http://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html
Do not try to recover all at once but each category at a time , documents , pictures , music ...etc...
If it fails , try this one . It's not free but very efficient : Tenorshare Data Recovery. It can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to unwanted erasing , system sabotage, virus corrupted partitions,drives crash, physical damage,etc.. http://www.any-data-recovery.com/product/index.htm
Regards ,
fanaudi .

You must try some Data Recovery Software. There are some free software available u can search them on google but I do not believe in free software as it will end up messing my computer with virus and spywares and whether it recovers your data intact or not is not guaranteed there are chances that u end up loosing your precious data. So I look for cheap and good software. For recovery software, I bought one before called Kernel for Macintosh, good thing is that it's one time payment and then it allows me to use forever. Take a look if you do not mind paying to get back your data, U can also download d trial version from http://www.datarecoverymac.com/
Using trial version u can preview d data recovered but to save it u hav to purchase the software