Cant allocate the drive.

[Bonzilink]

Every time I try to allocate the drive in Disk Management, I get this error.

"Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)".

I to allocate the drive to use it, and I don't want to throw it away.

Can someone help me?

[ghostslayer30]

this may help,

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/how-to-fix-cyclic-redundancy-check-data-error/

 

[Bonzilink]

3 minutes ago, ghostslayer30 said:

this may help, 

https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/how-to-fix-cyclic-redundancy-check-data-error/

I already recovered the files. I just need to allocate the drive.

[ghostslayer30]

is this a new drive? if not then you may have bad drive sectors

 

[Bonzilink]

Just now, ghostslayer30 said:

is this a new drive? if not then you may have bad drive sectors

I checked, there was one.

[ghostslayer30]

have you run a surface repair?

 

[Bonzilink]

1 minute ago, ghostslayer30 said:

have you run a surface repair?

 

How do I do that?

[ghostslayer30]

sadly windows has no way to repair bad disk sectors, you will have to use 3rd party software like easeUs or disk sentinel

 

[Bonzilink]

2 minutes ago, ghostslayer30 said:

sadly windows has no way to repair bad disk sectors, you will have to use 3rd party software like easeUs or disk sentinel

Damn, EaseUS is a scam...

[ghostslayer30]

what company is the drive from? some companies have disk software like seagate.

i use disk sentinel but i dont remember if i paid for it or not.

[Bonzilink]

21 minutes ago, ghostslayer30 said:

what company is the drive from? some companies have disk software like seagate. 

i use disk sentinel but i dont remember if i paid for it or not.

Western Digital My Passport Ultra.

[ghostslayer30]

http://downloads.wdc.com/wdapp/WDDriveUtilitiesSetup_for_web_2.0.0.54.zip

[ghostslayer30]

hope that helps

 

[Bonzilink]

4 minutes ago, ghostslayer30 said:

hope that helps

The quick drive test failed... I want the drive detected by Windows Explorer. By the way, this drive had been only used by Mac.

[Falconevo]

bin the drive

[Bonzilink]

9 hours ago, Falconevo said:

bin the drive

wtf

[Falconevo]

1 hour ago, Bonzilink said:

wtf

The drive is not worth keeping, it should go in the bin.

[Bonzilink]

Just now, Falconevo said:

The drive is not worth keeping, it should go in the bin.

It still has a chance...

[Falconevo]

1 minute ago, Bonzilink said:

It still has a chance...

It is not worth even bothering, it will only lead to unwanted data loss in the future at the remote chance you are able to make it functional.  It should go in the bin, hard disks aren't that expensive to replace and they are a consumable.

[SSD Sean]

Oh no, don't play with fire now. Trash that drive or RMA. One can NEVER trust a drive throwing errors. I've seen too many failures. Even tho it seems to be functioning now, it may not next week, next month, or next year, or in 10 minutes and bam, unable to recover like you were luckily able to do so this time. Besides, HDDs are cheap anyways.  

 

EDIT: Just noticed this was a necro thread...