Hard Drive dying?

[perplex]

does anyone have more information on what this is doing? from what i got hold they turned on the computer and it started doing this. apparently its been going for over 24 hours so far. im unsure of the size of the HDD between 1-4TB, ive tried searching for it and nothing came up

 

anyone seen this before?

 

[Kilrah]

Yep, likely dead drive hanging forever on dead sectors...

[Yebi]

I'd make sure there's a back-up, boot up an OS from a flash drive and do some good-old destructive surface testing done

[perplex]

2 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Yep, likely dead drive hanging forever on dead sectors...

 

2 hours ago, Yebi said:

I'd make sure there's a back-up, boot up an OS from a flash drive and do some good-old destructive surface testing done

 

so that is gigabyte trying to fix the hardrive on boot im assuming.

 

ill take the hd out and put in a external to gather the data even though its a copy of the C drive i believe

[Kilrah]

Nothing to do with gigabyte, it's windows' check on boot. 

 

Gigabyte is just a custom Windows boot logo...

[perplex]

8 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Nothing to do with gigabyte, it's windows' check on boot. 

 

Gigabyte is just a custom Windows boot logo...

i dont know if its getting anywhere or it will get to a point and stop and reset. ill turn it off and run HDDScan full and see what happens after i get as much data off as i can

 

[perplex]

so the drive has bad sectors

 

is there a way to use the drive and it just ignores certain sectors? if so how?

[Kilrah]

Take the drive out, connect it to a linux-running machine (or make a live USB key to boot linux on this machine), use ddrescue to copy the contents that are still readable to another drive.

 

Do NOT let it do more scans, it'll just accelerate wear and reduce chances of getting any data back.

[perplex]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

Take the drive out, connect it to a linux-running machine (or make a live USB key to boot linux on this machine), use ddrescue to copy the contents that are still readable to another drive.

 

Do NOT let it do more scans, it'll just accelerate wear and reduce chances of getting any data back.

the hd just backups the make C drive so nothing important is lost since its on c drive already

 

so far its got alot more bad sectors/error than i thought. guessing its not worth trying to partition around the bad sectors

 

 

how does it get so many errors and still work? because im sure all the errors couldnt of come at once, unless it was dropped ect

 

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Just replace the drive and quit gambling with it. They aren't all that expensive.

[perplex]

well that died faster than i was expecting.

 

cant even access/see it now, shows as unrecognizable. powers off and on