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Bad health with external drive?

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It's an external IOMEGA that uses USB B, had it bought years ago (I think between 2006 - 2009, 2010?). 1 TB. Only had one problem with it, a year or so ago I just hooked it up and it seems it had failed and crashed. Bought a Seagate (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148864) to backup the data to. Now it seems I need yet another drive. I guess suggest 1 TB+ drives that use either USB 2.0, 3.0, firewire, or eSata.

 

 

Oh and before I forget, I think I lost the power connector for that seagate or my Western Digital Mybook, anyone know where on Amazon (or newegg) I could get another?

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In a command prompt: chkdsk K:

If it reports bad sectors, you should backup your drive before more bad sectors make the drive unusable.

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Last night (or so) I did a checkdisk (Right Click the Drive->properties->Tools->Error checking), seemed fine I think. post-8467-0-38812900-1376119041.png

 

Is what the command prompt returns. I have backed up some of what is on the drive to an different external.    Also I have a different drive that when plugged in (that seagate) it doesn't seem to register in Windows Explorer (Although another drive does show), it slows parts of the same (Windows expolorer windows anyway) to a extreme crawl.

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I added a SeaGate hard drive to my system awhile back and it wouldn't register either I found out later that day after installing I had to get a program called something like SeaGate Sea Tools in order for windows to recognize it... Try it I hope it helps :D

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You have 4KB in bad sectors, these are physically damaged places on the drive. It's going to start blocking up (trying to read from the sector over and over again) from these sectors. My suggestion is you backup everything now as it is only going to get worse now.

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Already done that, guess I should seek a replacement drive, suggestions people? Again
 

At lest 1 TB (although 1.5-3 is fine, more is better)

Should use:

  • USB 2.0 (or 3.0, pferebly 3.0)
  • Firewire (incase all my other USB ports are taken)
  • eSata (that should be the fastest, yes?)

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