(Help) External Harddrive Problem

[brviggs]

I have a 1tb toshiba external harddrive, it was working fine for the past 1 month but couple days ago my external harddrive gets an error and it is causing lag on my system everytime i open explorer with the drive plugged in. Any help would be amazing. The external harddrive marked "f"

 

P.s. sorry for my english 

[Electronics Wizardy]

This looks like a bad hdd.

 

Id warranty the drive and restore backups.

[brviggs]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

This looks like a bad hdd.

 

Id warranty the drive and restore backups.

unfortunately i get this from my friends and looks like the warranty is expired.

so basically i just need to format the hdd and recover the hdd right? 
any recommendation software for recovering the hdd, i tried easeus and recuva but i'm not satisfied

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, brviggs said:

unfortunately i get this from my friends and looks like the warranty is expired.

so basically i just need to format the hdd and recover the hdd right? 
any recommendation software for recovering the hdd, i tried easeus and recuva but i'm not satisfied

How much do you care about the data.

 

Do not format the drive if you care about the data. 

 

If you care about the data a lot, send it to a data recovery service, if you don't make a image with ddrescue, then use a program like photorec to get some files from it. Warning, doing diy will get you less files.

 

Let this be a learning experience to make backups next time.

[brviggs]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

How much do you care about the data.

 

Do not format the drive if you care about the data. 

 

If you care about the data a lot, send it to a data recovery service, if you don't make a image with ddrescue, then use a program like photorec to get some files from it. Warning, doing diy will get you less files.

 

Let this be a learning experience to make backups next time.

we dont have that kind of service in our country, so i guess the issue is from the quality of the hdd itself?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, brviggs said:

we dont have that kind of service in our country, so i guess the issue is from the quality of the hdd itself?

all hdds will fail, its just a matter of when.

 

Your probably have a service like that, there are many small shops, or you can ship it somewhere.

[Radium_Angel]

17 minutes ago, brviggs said:

we dont have that kind of service in our country, so i guess the issue is from the quality of the hdd itself?

It might not be the drive itself. It might be the controller on the external enclosure. I've seen this occur several times. If you can, remove the drive from the enclosure and plug it in internally, it might still be good. Or at least good enough to pull data from

[brviggs]

On 6/30/2018 at 10:46 AM, Radium_Angel said:

It might not be the drive itself. It might be the controller on the external enclosure. I've seen this occur several times. If you can, remove the drive from the enclosure and plug it in internally, it might still be good. Or at least good enough to pull data from

Thank you, nice advice, will try to do that

[Yvette222]

Agree with Radium_Angel, try connecting the drive internally. If you get the same result, take a screenshot in Windows Disk Management.