Any ideas what I can do about a hard drive which is failing? It took a slight knock, equivalent of about a 1cm fall, and was disconnected at the same time. Probably the disconnection while being used caused the problem.
It is given a drive letter in windows, but cannot be opened in file explorer, and disk management doesn't know much about it beyond the drive letter.
It doesn't make any funny noises or clicks, sounds normal. Seatools reports some errors and a long failed test but it passed the short test.
chkdsk f: /r is running and recognises that the disk is NTFS and its volume label.
It is currently at stage 1: examining basic file system structure. Progress: 39 of 166144 done. ETA: 999hours. About 10 seconds for each item.
It has given some "file record segment xx is unreadable" errors already.
Any suggestions? Leave it while I go on a week's holiday and see if it finishes?
(Yes I know I should have backed it up. I also tell everyone to back up their stuff but never get round to it myself!)
It is given a drive letter in windows, but cannot be opened in file explorer, and disk management doesn't know much about it beyond the drive letter.
It doesn't make any funny noises or clicks, sounds normal. Seatools reports some errors and a long failed test but it passed the short test.
chkdsk f: /r is running and recognises that the disk is NTFS and its volume label.
It is currently at stage 1: examining basic file system structure. Progress: 39 of 166144 done. ETA: 999hours. About 10 seconds for each item.
It has given some "file record segment xx is unreadable" errors already.
Any suggestions? Leave it while I go on a week's holiday and see if it finishes?
(Yes I know I should have backed it up. I also tell everyone to back up their stuff but never get round to it myself!)
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