- Mar 25, 2017
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Hello,
I have an old western digital external HDD that is obviously failing. I'd like to know if there is anything that I can do.
Backstory:
I bought a new SSD external so I could move all the pictures from the old HDD to the new SSD. I noticed from the start that I couldn't copy all the files over to the new SSD. I had to do it in 10 or so folder batches. During the process of copying over I believe the hard drive just died. It started saying something along the lines of "image size to large to fit on the new drive". I still had over 1.2TB of space on the new drive.
I closed out of the file explorer and safely disconnected both the externals. Upon plugging the old one back up it said there was an error with my external. I scanned it to repair, but it was unsuccessful. When I opened the old external I noticed that there was only 70 images, but over 10k files in a hidden folder named "found.000". Also, the external hard drive still shows roughly 500GB of data on the drive in the overview but I physically can't see them.
I've tried recuva but it only recovered maybe 5 pictures. I used crystal disk info to see the health of the HDD and it said "caution. Current Pending Sector Count". Both recuva and crystal disk info was used in a hirensboot if that matters.
I am trying to create a copy of the old external to the new external using Macrium Reflect as I type this. But, I'm not confident it will show me all the files once it's done....if it even completes.
Thank you to anyone that takes the time to read this!
I have an old western digital external HDD that is obviously failing. I'd like to know if there is anything that I can do.
Backstory:
I bought a new SSD external so I could move all the pictures from the old HDD to the new SSD. I noticed from the start that I couldn't copy all the files over to the new SSD. I had to do it in 10 or so folder batches. During the process of copying over I believe the hard drive just died. It started saying something along the lines of "image size to large to fit on the new drive". I still had over 1.2TB of space on the new drive.
I closed out of the file explorer and safely disconnected both the externals. Upon plugging the old one back up it said there was an error with my external. I scanned it to repair, but it was unsuccessful. When I opened the old external I noticed that there was only 70 images, but over 10k files in a hidden folder named "found.000". Also, the external hard drive still shows roughly 500GB of data on the drive in the overview but I physically can't see them.
I've tried recuva but it only recovered maybe 5 pictures. I used crystal disk info to see the health of the HDD and it said "caution. Current Pending Sector Count". Both recuva and crystal disk info was used in a hirensboot if that matters.
I am trying to create a copy of the old external to the new external using Macrium Reflect as I type this. But, I'm not confident it will show me all the files once it's done....if it even completes.
Thank you to anyone that takes the time to read this!
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