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by RasmusH
21 Apr 2012, 15:45
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Bad sectors on external drive
Replies: 7
Views: 22189

Re: Bad sectors on external drive

Hi Fiona
I've gone into the bootsector as you've said, the picture below is a screenshot from there.
http://s10.postimage.org/sm98lvwt5/Bootsector.jpg

When I choose rebuild, it goes to the next window, shown below, but it doesn't show any sign of rebuilding anything.
http://s17.postimage.org ...
by RasmusH
20 Apr 2012, 11:31
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Bad sectors on external drive
Replies: 7
Views: 22189

Re: Bad sectors on external drive

-update

I've just been in touch with a professional HDD repairman, who told me that I should try to extract the data myself. He said that the harddisk probably was beyond repair, and I might as well just get started on saving as much data as possible, at 4 MB/s. He recommended me to use Linux as ...
by RasmusH
20 Apr 2012, 09:39
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Bad sectors on external drive
Replies: 7
Views: 22189

Re: Bad sectors on external drive

Hi Fiona
Thank you so much for your quick reply.
I think one of the big problems is that my girlfriend has had this problem for quite some time, and still used the harddrive as she always did. We blamed it on her computer which is old and full of, let's say challenges. So she's been storing and ...
by RasmusH
19 Apr 2012, 19:00
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Bad sectors on external drive
Replies: 7
Views: 22189

Re: Bad sectors on external drive

Let me just make an addition:
I have now tried to analyze the disk, but after 1½ hours it had not even reached 2 percent yet. So, again it will take around 100 hours, if not more, just to make a disk analysis.

I really hope some of you have some golden advice, I am leaning more and more towards the ...
by RasmusH
19 Apr 2012, 14:03
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Bad sectors on external drive
Replies: 7
Views: 22189

Bad sectors on external drive

Hello ppl
I have an urgent problem that I would deeply grateful if you could help me with.
My girlfriends WD 1.5 TB MyBook is apparently riddled with bad sectors, and I only found out now because I was trying to back up the 650 GB of data on it. When trying to copy from the WD to an other external ...