Question HELP!!! Harddrive stops working after connecting it to a Smart TV

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Sekaiichi no baka

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So, I gave my hard drive to a friend because they needed the movies on it. When i got it back, i realized it did not work. Plugging it into all my ports plus a usb hub made no difference. It would show the led indicator blink like 5 times, and just stay on. Checking task manager, i saw that every few tens of seconds, it read/wrote like 100kbps. It also did not have the custom name i assigned it in the file explorer, and was wrongly labelled E:/ drive instead of the D:/ drive i would normally see it as. Trying to access the drive, i get an error sayin the parameter was incorrect or something similar:
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Checking the Device manager under storage devices, i saw the name of the hard drive. Opening Disk Management, It would not loadup and in the bottom corner, it would say unable to connect to the virtual disk service. Testing for the same symptopms on my second laptop, I got the exact same issues.

I read online that some smart Tvs change the hard drive's format, so i tried the Hdd on my "non - smart" Tv, and it worked perfectly. I could navigate and see my files still there, and i could access them all, just not on my laptop for some reason

I really REALLY to get all the files back intact, as i have like $300-$400 worth of stuff on it. Please Help!!
 
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I think your hard drive will die whatever you do. However, the least stressful approach is to use HDDSuperClone. This tool disables retries and skips over the difficult sectors on the first pass, then it tries to recover the remaining sectors on subsequent passes. Other tools will thrash a bad sector for up to 1 minute before they give up.

If your other drive has 1TB of free space, you could clone your bad drive to a 1TB image file on the other drive.
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fzabkar said:
Can you retrieve a SMART report with CrystalDiskInfo or GSmartControl?

Can you show us the Partitions tab in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/
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I do not know how to do the smart report with Crystal Disk Info. However, this is what the homepage looks like:
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However, DMDE did let me into the hard drive and let me see the contents of the hard drive; they were accessible on there. However, since I am out of space, I could not recover anything to ensure that they actually work.
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Your HDD is dying.

Currently there are 0x620 (= 1568) reallocated sectors. These are bad sectors that have been replaced with spares.

There are an additional 0x2B0 (= 688) sectors that are waiting to be replaced (pending).

Your best DIY opportunity is to clone the drive with HDDSuperClone and then use DMDE to recover your data from the clone, if necessary. However, be prepared for the drive to fail completely at any time.
 
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fzabkar said:
Your HDD is dying.

Currently there are 0x620 (= 1568) reallocated sectors. These are bad sectors that have been replaced with spares.

There are an additional 0x2B0 (= 688) sectors that are waiting to be replaced (pending).

Your best DIY opportunity is to clone the drive with HDDSuperClone and then use DMDE to recover your data from the clone, if necessary. However, be prepared for the drive to fail completely at any time.
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Is there anything I can do to prevent the hard drive from dying? Will I be able to get all my files back? I won't be able to Clone the HDD onto another one, but I have a second laptop. Can I recover my files from the hard drive to the other laptop's HDD?
 
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I think your hard drive will die whatever you do. However, the least stressful approach is to use HDDSuperClone. This tool disables retries and skips over the difficult sectors on the first pass, then it tries to recover the remaining sectors on subsequent passes. Other tools will thrash a bad sector for up to 1 minute before they give up.

If your other drive has 1TB of free space, you could clone your bad drive to a 1TB image file on the other drive.
 
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fzabkar said:
I think your hard drive will die whatever you do. However, the least stressful approach is to use HDDSuperClone. This tool disables retries and skips over the difficult sectors on the first pass, then it tries to recover the remaining sectors on subsequent passes. Other tools will thrash a bad sector for up to 1 minute before they give up.

If your other drive has 1TB of free space, you could clone your bad drive to a 1TB image file on the other drive.
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Well, the other hard drive( around 750 GB in total) is already inside another laptop with a Windows 8.1 install. I don't think the stuff on the dying hard drive is up to 700 GB. At the very least, I intend to reset my current Windows 10 laptop and pick out the essential things I need.

That said, can I pick the stuff I want to restore onto my second hard drive (500 GB available) during the cloning, or will it be necessary to have a 1 TB hard drive?
 
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fzabkar said:
Just wait until you have a positive outcome. Good luck.

BTW, the free version of DMDE is limited to 4000 files of any size from any one folder per click. The standard version costs US$20.
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Hey, it's been a while. I wasnt able to fully recover all the files as some of them were damaged, but i was wandering if there is anyway to fix the drive like formatting it or something. Once i plugged the hard drive into my other laptop and opened disk management, it showed the hdd was raw. then i tried using dmde on the other laptop and the hdd started beeping. Then i tried it on my main laptop and it worked fine on dmde but disk management couldnt see anything
 
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