[SOLVED] What does this crystaldiskinfo report mean?

[noush]

Hi,

I have been struggling to figure out why my external harddisk will not show up. someone suggested i try crystaldiskinfo to see if the harddisk is ok. the report says bad. But i am not able to understand what happened or why it is bad. Can someone please help me understand what this means.

Thanks
Here is the IMAGE of the report

 

[popatim]

Thats not a public link.

 

[noush]

Sorry. I've made the link public now.

 

[popatim]

The drive has some issues.
Are there copies of any important data on it stored on other drives/disks?

As to what those mean:
(01) Raw Read Error (simplified) - is a rolling count of the drives inability to read a sector

(C5) Pending Sector Count - the number of sectors that the drive had an issue with reading and has those sectors marked for a more thorough testing later. If they pass they go back into service. If they fail they will become a Reallocated sector(05) if the data in it can be moved to a spare sector, or a (C6) Uncorrectible Sector if the data couldn't be recovered.


Can you post a link to a screenshots of your diskmanagement window (run diskmgmt.msc) and Device manager (devmgmt.msc) for us pls?

 

[mdd1963]

The drive is likely soon to be repurposed as a doorstop....

Get what data you can from it while you still can... (often , but not always, once a drive 'heads south' as you are seeing , complete failure can occur within a few operating hours remaining