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Bunke
By Bunke
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So about a month ago i started getting  these weird incidents when my would randomly "freeze" it wasnt really frozen because i could still talk and hear on TS and move my mouse but no program would open(not even a new tab in chrome) and i had to restart my PC to get everything working again. It also doesnt want to shut off by itself so i have to hold down the power button. This has gotten more extreme is the last few days/weeks to the point where my E: drive doesnt want to load any data at all when i start my PC. And ive also beeb getting automatic chkdsk's for my E: drive after every "freeze" and it always deleted some files it deemed corrupted 

What i've tried:

Check S.M.A.R.T status (says its ok)

Run chkdsk manually 

Reading/writing doesnt seem particularly bad

Let kaspersly search through C:,E:, and G: drive for viruses none found

 

So i am not sure if windows has a problem with my E: drive (HDD, over a year turned on time) or if my E: drive is dying. If anyone could help me out i would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

 

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The drive is failing to respond to the OS for some reason.  I have had a PSU cause this problem, but generally it is the drive waving goodbye as it is dying.

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4 minutes ago, Bunke said:

automatic chkdsk's

That's a sure sign of drive death.

Hope you have backups...

NOTE: I no longer frequent this site. If you really need help, PM/DM me and my e.mail will alert me. 

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Unplug it, store it in a safe environment until you get a drive to clone it to, clone it, and then go from there.

I had a very similar issue on one of my drives in the past. The drive was failing but with the PSU in there so did just about everything else after a few years of hard use.

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Hard Disk Sentinel should be able to provide more info.

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19 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Hard Disk Sentinel should be able to provide more info.

Don't! Shut down the drive and keep it shut down until you are able to COPY your data off of it, then attempt a clone. The more you run the drive, the sooner it may die completely. Clones can fail, taking the source drive with it, if the source drive has bad sectors or is corrupted so it's better to copy the data from it before attempting the clone. Once you have your data off the drive and have attempted the clone, then you can try to diagnose and fix the problem.

 

If the data on the drive is critical, don't even do what I suggested. Instead send the drive immediately to a data recovery expert for professional recovery. This can cost well north of a thousand dollars but DIY attempts at recovery are far more likely to fail than succeed, rendering your data unrecoverable even by experts. You have to decide how much your data is worth to you.

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One has to be proactive, not reactive, to ensure the safety of one's data so backup your data! And RAID is NOT a backup!

 

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2 hours ago, ELECTRISK said:

Unplug it, store it in a safe environment until you get a drive to clone it to, clone it, and then go from there.

I had a very similar issue on one of my drives in the past. The drive was failing but with the PSU in there so did just about everything else after a few years of hard use.

what programs are there to clone a hard drive?

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1 hour ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

Don't! Shut down the drive and keep it shut down until you are able to COPY your data off of it, then attempt a clone. The more you run the drive, the sooner it may die completely. Clones can fail, taking the source drive with it, if the source drive has bad sectors or is corrupted so it's better to copy the data from it before attempting the clone. Once you have your data off the drive and have attempted the clone, then you can try to diagnose and fix the problem.

 

If the data on the drive is critical, don't even do what I suggested. Instead send the drive immediately to a data recovery expert for professional recovery. This can cost well north of a thousand dollars but DIY attempts at recovery are far more likely to fail than succeed, rendering your data unrecoverable even by experts. You have to decide how much your data is worth to you.

nothing i cant get back mostly steam games but i attempted copying the data which i want off it right now. The write speed has gotten a lot worse since i last tested it. Its now peaks at 2mb and goes down to the byte area. Yikes.

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4 hours ago, Bunke said:

what programs are there to clone a hard drive?

I use macrium reflect, it's free and has always worked great for me.

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