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Hi, thanks for the reply, i did run the chkdsk /r but it would have taken 250 hours to complete as it had only checked 5000/155000 files in about 8 hours,so i restarted the pc while it was checking,and i think that's what messed it up. Is it possible the drive is fine and the bad sectors are caused ...

I decided to plug the external in a different usb port and it's now recognized in windows and everything is fine. I ran HD tune and says "Number of damaged sectors which have been replaced: 1571. The drive has bad sectors. So i'm guessing the hard drive is dying and i should backup? Or could it be ...

Hi, i have a 2TB external drive which started telling me i needed to format it about 2 weeks ago,i managed to fix it after running testdisk and then chkdsk /f ,i think it found some bad sectors. It worked fine for a week and then yesterday it started again, so i thought i would run chkdsk /r to try ...