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 Member 2043 Level 29.93 Mar 2006 
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Hard Drive Acting Up
So I was going through one of my externals, opening videos at random when I find a significant portion of these videos don't work anymore.
At this point, I cracked open my external (It's a Maxtor OneTouch 4 500GB) and stuck the actual drive itself (a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 500GB, go figure) in my computer (with an internal SATA cable) and booted it up. No change at all, files that didn't work still don't work. Fearing for the worst, I immediately copied everything that still worked from the hard drive and onto another hard drive. I ran chkdsk on the drive and it doesn't seem to have any problems (though it didn't take very long to run, oddly enough, on a 80% full 500GB drive). Any ideas on what would cause this? Is the drive failing? Or is it some kind of fluke? Most amazing jew boots |
Member 2043 Level 29.93 Mar 2006
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Smartmontools reports that it has overheated once in the past.
So I suppose that was what happened. The drive still passed inspection, apparently, but it has overheated once. Debating on whether or not to continue using this drive or not.... And yeah, I guess I should be lucky I can still grab files off of it. I might take a shot at SpinRite 6 actually, since redownloading what I lost might take a while, or be hard to impossible. There's nowhere I can't reach.
Last edited by Omnislash124; May 2, 2008 at 07:45 PM.
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Member 2043 Level 29.93 Mar 2006
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 And I didn't see any kind of fan when I popped it open. EDIT: Now that I look it over again, that Seek_Error_Rate doesn't seem friendly....going to run it a few more times to see if it goes up. EDIT 2: So I ran it again: New value: 12584722. Damn, I guess I'm trashing this drive. Still going to try to retrieve as much as I can from the corrupted files. Going to try SpinRite 6. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
Last edited by Omnislash124; May 3, 2008 at 07:58 AM.
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