Question Hard drive stops working during file copying/moving

[asdacasdd123]

This is somewhat recent. The drive was fine 2 months ago. Then out of nowhere it starts having issues when moving files to it from my ssd. It copies fine for the first minute or two, then I get an error message, 0x800701b1 'a device which does not exist was specified'. I tried looking the issue up but can't find anything quite like my problem. After this happens, I can't do anything with the drive other than browse the folder i most recently tried moving. Can't delete, move, or copy stuff. Older folders don't open, again saying the device does not exist. Trying to scan/repair it gives a similar error. The only fix is restarting the pc, at which point it's accessible until I again try to move/copy files to it. Any ideas?

 

[Mooons]

Sounds like there is a bad sector in your HDD.

"When you try to access a file, you get some hard drive read errors, mentioning file corruption or others, it may suggest bad sector. Moreover, if it takes a pretty long time to open a file or you encounter blue screen during reading, it must refer to that there is bad sector on this drive. "

Quoted from: https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/6-common-signs-indicating-bad-sectors-hard-drive/

 

[asdacasdd123]

Your drive may have bad sectors or might be your drive got corrupted. Drive failure can happen due to various reasons. Before you do anything else I suggest you to check the health status of your drive using the diagnostic tool. It will make you confirm the issue with your drive.

I've used 2 diagnostic tools but nothing seems to be wrong with it. Guess I'll just have to get a new one.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Sorry to see that you are having issues with the drive. Which diagnostic software did you use? Is the drive still under warranty?

We recommend the software which is provided by the manufacturer to test the drive.

 

[Onin005]

This is somewhat recent. The drive was fine 2 months ago. Then out of nowhere it starts having issues when moving files to it from my ssd. It copies fine for the first minute or two, then I get an error message, 0x800701b1 'a device which does not exist was specified'. I tried looking the issue up but can't find anything quite like my problem. After this happens, I can't do anything with the drive other than browse the folder i most recently tried moving. Can't delete, move, or copy stuff. Older folders don't open, again saying the device does not exist. Trying to scan/repair it gives a similar error. The only fix is restarting the pc, at which point it's accessible until I again try to move/copy files to it. Any ideas?

I am also having this problem. But with a newly bought hard drive. Have you fixed the problem? If yes, how? Thank you!

 

[fzabkar]

I would return the drive. Otherwise zero fill it and perform a full surface scan. This may retire any bad sectors, but then you will see a non-zero value in the SMART Reallocated Sector Count attribute.

https://hddscan.com/
https://hdd.by/victoria/
https://hdd.by/Victoria/Victoria528.zip
https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/

 

[Onin005]

I would return the drive. Otherwise zero fill it and perform a full surface scan. This may retire any bad sectors, but then you will see a non-zero value in the SMART Reallocated Sector Count attribute.

https://hddscan.com/
https://hdd.by/victoria/
https://hdd.by/Victoria/Victoria528.zip
https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/

Thank you for your suggestion. But after tireless hours of searching I found out that booting the pc to Normal boot using cmd and msconfig would fix my problem. I don't know how it is connected to the drive freezing but it worked. Also, SMART Reallocated Sector Count showed 68. But still, Thank You!