I have a WD 500gb External drive that is about 7 years old or so. Its been working fine as a repository of all my music. A few days ago i extracted a rar file directly onto the disk and was getting ready to click out of explorer so i could pull plug it out. The Not Responding error came up on the window so i force shut it down and when i plugged the drive back in it was making a clicking sound and wouldnt register as a drive. I eventually plugged it into another computer in case there was something wrong with the one i had been using and started chkdsk /r on it. it got to about 68000 out of 25000 file clusters before it bogged down and started getting unreadable errors. its been running since friday afternoon and the ETA keeps climbing. it is now over 300 hours.
Should i let it run its course and keep running or shut down the computer to stop it? CTRL C or Esc does not stop it. I would at the very least like to be able to see the directory tree so i know what i need to revocer if i cannot recover the files themselves. What are my options? thanks!
Edit: As soon as the chkdsk started the clicking stopped and the first message said it deleted corrupted attribute list entry with code 80 in file D1E4
Should i let it run its course and keep running or shut down the computer to stop it? CTRL C or Esc does not stop it. I would at the very least like to be able to see the directory tree so i know what i need to revocer if i cannot recover the files themselves. What are my options? thanks!
Edit: As soon as the chkdsk started the clicking stopped and the first message said it deleted corrupted attribute list entry with code 80 in file D1E4
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