02-04-2018, 04:32 PM
I have a Seagate 4TB external hard drive.I recently swapped it out for another one.When I disconnected it I just pulled the power plug, which in retrospect I probably shouldn't have done because I know that sudden power loss can cause problems with drives.I didn't know why that didn't cross my mind.When I went to transfer my files over to the new drive I counldn't.Some of them seem to have become inaccessible.I ran chkdsk /f in the command prompt and it seemed to fix the problem atleast temporarily...long enough for me to transfer most of my files.Now there are files I want to move TO that drive and once again i'm having problems.The transfer process starts, but then just doesn't move.That green progress bar just stays where it starts.
I can open the drive and even the 2 folders still on it, but when it starts loading the files it gets stuck again.It becomes unresponsive if I try to do anything even closing it.I've run chkdsk /r multiple times on the drive and it literally takes about 2 days, or so to get to 10% and just stays there.All there is is a long list of things it says are unreadable and a few entries that say it recovered, or removed, I can't remember which, bad sectors.I guess what i'm asking is can this drive be salvaged?Is there some kind of software I can run to fix, or atleast diagnose it, or should I just try to get what's left of my files off because it's as good as garbage?Obviously I would like to avoid the latter.
I can open the drive and even the 2 folders still on it, but when it starts loading the files it gets stuck again.It becomes unresponsive if I try to do anything even closing it.I've run chkdsk /r multiple times on the drive and it literally takes about 2 days, or so to get to 10% and just stays there.All there is is a long list of things it says are unreadable and a few entries that say it recovered, or removed, I can't remember which, bad sectors.I guess what i'm asking is can this drive be salvaged?Is there some kind of software I can run to fix, or atleast diagnose it, or should I just try to get what's left of my files off because it's as good as garbage?Obviously I would like to avoid the latter.