Hello.
I believe I have a corrupted external hard drive. I've had this WD external hard drive for many years now and sadly, the thought of backing up the files by having another external hard drive never crossed my mind. Well, maybe it did once or twice, but I was too lazy to at that time and thought another tomorrow would do but now that it's corrupted, I'm pretty much doomed. I have probably 5 years worth of photos/videos, 350GB, so imagine how important this is to me to have the files restored.
In this external hard drive, I have all of my photos organized into separate folders. Seems like the videos aren't affected. It's the photos that are. When I click into some photo folders, about half of them open up normally, I'm able to view the photos; however, the other half of the folders, when I click into them, they display little icons that look like white pages with funky font/symbols. When I try to copy and past those workable folders into another external hard drive, they take forever to transfer over, so I usually end up giving up before the files are transferred over.
Symptoms? Well, my computer can detect it and can also open it; however, my computer keeps saying that there are errors on the drive and to repair it. When I click repair, my computer tries to repair it but later says, it wasn't successful in repairing it, so to retry again.
In the last repair my computer attempted to do lasted about 2 hours I would say but I cancelled it because I thought it wasn't going anywhere or may have gotten stuck. When I went to view my external hard drive to see if my folders have become accessible, half of them became little white paper icons, no longer the little yellow folder icons. I hope I didn't lose those files.
My questions are, is my external hard drive corrupted? If it is, is it repairable? What should I do? Those folders that have now become little icons that look like white pages with funky font/symbols, would I be able to repair those and retrieve those photos? My last resort is to seek professional help but decided to post here to try to learn something and perhaps save a bit too in the meantime. Thank you all.
So I was researching some previous threads and someone suggested this free program to recover files and such. http://icare-recovery.com/data-recovery-free.html
Would this program pertain to my issue? I'm mean, the files I want are still there in the external hard drive, they're just no longer folders, they're little white paper icons that I can't click into anymore. And if it does answer my question, which one would I choose?
I believe I have a corrupted external hard drive. I've had this WD external hard drive for many years now and sadly, the thought of backing up the files by having another external hard drive never crossed my mind. Well, maybe it did once or twice, but I was too lazy to at that time and thought another tomorrow would do but now that it's corrupted, I'm pretty much doomed. I have probably 5 years worth of photos/videos, 350GB, so imagine how important this is to me to have the files restored.
In this external hard drive, I have all of my photos organized into separate folders. Seems like the videos aren't affected. It's the photos that are. When I click into some photo folders, about half of them open up normally, I'm able to view the photos; however, the other half of the folders, when I click into them, they display little icons that look like white pages with funky font/symbols. When I try to copy and past those workable folders into another external hard drive, they take forever to transfer over, so I usually end up giving up before the files are transferred over.
Symptoms? Well, my computer can detect it and can also open it; however, my computer keeps saying that there are errors on the drive and to repair it. When I click repair, my computer tries to repair it but later says, it wasn't successful in repairing it, so to retry again.
In the last repair my computer attempted to do lasted about 2 hours I would say but I cancelled it because I thought it wasn't going anywhere or may have gotten stuck. When I went to view my external hard drive to see if my folders have become accessible, half of them became little white paper icons, no longer the little yellow folder icons. I hope I didn't lose those files.
My questions are, is my external hard drive corrupted? If it is, is it repairable? What should I do? Those folders that have now become little icons that look like white pages with funky font/symbols, would I be able to repair those and retrieve those photos? My last resort is to seek professional help but decided to post here to try to learn something and perhaps save a bit too in the meantime. Thank you all.
So I was researching some previous threads and someone suggested this free program to recover files and such. http://icare-recovery.com/data-recovery-free.html
Would this program pertain to my issue? I'm mean, the files I want are still there in the external hard drive, they're just no longer folders, they're little white paper icons that I can't click into anymore. And if it does answer my question, which one would I choose?
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