Re: USB Hard Drive Giving Problems

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The extended test stopped after having run for about 15 mintues & when I
clicked show test results this is what it gave me,
"Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Too many bad sectors detected."
Now what? Should I attempt a Windows Check Disk on it & tick 'automatically
fix file system errors' & 'search for and attempt recovery of bad sectors' or
will this be pointless as well?


"manu08" wrote:

Ok I cancelled the "extended test" I was running on the laptop because it was
saying it would take over 50 hours to complete it, probably cause of USB 1.1.
Instead I did a "quick test" through WD Diagnostics on the desktop & well it
took 5 mins where as it should have taken about a min (because of the random
pauses in trying to read the data) & this test passed. :S Now I'm going to
run an "extended test" on the desktop since its USB 2.0 it should be faster
than the laptop even with its random pauses.
This hard drive is about 6 months old & still under warranty so wouldn't
removing it from the case void the warranty? Is there no software that can
attempt to recover the data from a RAW hard drive?

"Ghostrider" wrote:


manu08 wrote:

Well, I called them up & they said I should call back in a few hours because
they are upgrading their system for hotfixes or something like that.

The desktop has USB 2.0 & the laptop has USB 1.1. Also, it is not connected
in the front USB port, it's in the rear port & yes I've tried connecting it
to another USB port & the same thing happens. Files transfer to the hard
drive but they keep pausing in between the transfer & the light on the hard
drive that shows it's being used (it's red in my one) it usually flickers
continously during a transfer, now in the midst of a transfer it just
randomly disappears for 5 - 10 seconds & then appears back after that pause.
I reinstalled Windows XP Home Edition on my desktop very very recently.

Now the problem has gotten a little worse, actually a lot worse. I
transferred about 20GB of files to my hard drive just now & restarted my
computer after that. Can't remember if I removed the hard drive through
'safely remove hardware', I think I did cause I never forget to almost 99% of
the time. Now the drive is being shown as 'local disk' & when I try to access
it I get "The drive is unreadable. The files are either corrupted or (I can't
remember what the other one was, sorry)." Connected it my laptop and tried
accessing it, got the same error message. Changed the USB cable, got the same
error message. Connected it through Firewire, same error message. Since it
was working perfectly fine on the laptop before I've initiated an "Extended
Test" through WD Diagnostics to see if it comes up with anything. Also just
before that in WD Diagnostics when I checked the hard drive properties, for
health it said "warning". I have a feeling the drive has died out on me, is
there any way I could recover my files myself? I've got about 200GB of files
on it & do not have a back up of the stuff. Please help me asap.



Starting to get a little dicey. The question now is whether the hard drive
has failed or has the external drive electronics failed. The only way to
test this is to remove the hard drive, if possible, and test in a known,
working external USB case or as a slave drive (jumpered accordingly) in a
computer.


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