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WD External Drive - stops near end of Attempt Recovery of Bad Sectors?

  • 20-01-2012 11:40pm
    #1
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey guys, I have a WD Elements External HDD 1.5TB. It dropped from on top of the PC tower onto wood. It still recognised and read fine when it plugged it in - but i noticed a few files wouldn't play/copy over; got the bad sector/cyclic redundancy.

    I took what i could off it (which was maybe 90% of the files) and formatted it (it stalled near the end of a slow format but there was a successful quick format). I did transfer 30GB on and off and all of those files worked grand. Then I ran Check Disc on the now empty drive - automatically fix file system errors and scan for & attempt recovery of bad sectors. It was chugging along until now it's stuck at free cluster 331751371.

    My HDD sounds and looks just like it used to, but i guess there's some bad sectors. Is there a way to quarantine these, and still use the ~1TB good area? Or will the hard drive fail sooner than later?

    Cheers, thanks for reading

    Jay


Comments

  • #2
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    woah! it's SLOWLY creeping up!
    331880371 maybe half an hour ago
    331886371 now
    do you think it's fixing the bad sectors?


  • #3
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Maybe. But it is a sign. If you have REALLY valuable data, save it somewhere else. Several places.


  • #4
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Maybe. But it is a sign. If you have REALLY valuable data, save it somewhere else. Several places.

    I've taken everything i can off, it's already wiped clean (well, empty!) all i want is a restore to normal, i'm fine if i lose 300MB or whatever, I just want the hard drive to be reliable again and start anew. What do u reckon?

    331889371 at 00:40am
    332032371 at 01:53am

    Also i don't think i can have this on all weekend. Will it destroy the hard drive to cancel in the morning? i need to give the laptop back to my bro u see :(


  • #5
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Download the diagnostics from WD for you drive from here: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?level1=3&lang=en


  • #6
    jaykhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    Thanks mate - downloaded & ran the quick test - here's the result

    Test Option: QUICK TEST
    Model Number:     WD 15EADS External
    Firmware Number: 1.75
    Capacity:     1500.30 GB
    SMART Status: PASS
    Test Result:     FAIL
    Test Error Code:     06-Quick Test on drive 4 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 105 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 4!
    Test Time: 15:18:28, January 21, 2012
    ====

    Any thing i can do to either right the bad sectors, or just quarantine them so i can use the rest of the drive? Or is it a ticking time bomb?

    edit : Is this pic of any use? It's the smark disk info on the drive.

    wddrivediag.gif


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