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flare4000
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So I dropped my external hard drive a while ago and now it seams to be acting up, so my question is there any ways to test hard drive failure? The issue is that when I try to copy files to it, it completely crashes windows. This only happens to a part of the drive since I tried to re-partition it already it seams like the first part is glitched. Any advice would be nice thanks. The hard drive is a Seagate goflex desk 2TB model.

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I would say that it has bad sectors but like Deddie suggested, download CrystalDiskInfo and see what it says.

 

I would say that you should get anything off the disk that you don't want to lose just incase.

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It says caution and that there are uncorrectable sectors, reallocated sectors count, and current pending sector count those are all yellow. What does that even mean lol?

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It says caution and that there are uncorrectable sectors, reallocated sectors count, and current pending sector count those are all yellow. What does that even mean lol?

 

Bad sectors, drive is f**ked, I'd get as much as you can off it and replace it.

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YOU MURDERER! 

 

R.I.P. poor hard-drive   :(

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Once dropped, a drive can't be trusted any more, it changes them.

 

I dropped a drive once, he thought he was a GPU, just horrible to see, just put him out of his misery and bring him to a recycle point.

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Backup files inside your External harddisk. In my experience It will break slowly until it's unusable AT ALL.

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