Messed Up External HD
Posted: 21 Jul 2016, 06:28
Hi,
I hope some people here can rescue me from a horrible computer migraine.
I have a HP Windows 10 PC and store a lot of things on a Seagate 5TB external hard drive. Something went terribly wrong though and I can no longer access any data on it. When you plug in the USB cable the PC will assign it a drive letter and the icon appears, though there is no other data like how much space is available on it etc. Right clicking and choosing Properties just brings up a generic page with Zero listed for data used and available.
I have close to 3TB of family photos, video etc on it - nothing irreplaceable, but it would be a massive migraine in finding and restoring everything.
I was told by someone to try Testdisk. With a quick search it found one of the larger folders I had, and I was able to download and save a lot of data
that way (it took 14 hours, almost staying up all night). But for the rest of the contents, I have had to try a deeper search.
My first issue is that at the rate I am timing its progress, it will take 9 straight days of going through the drive for this. Is this normal?
Secondly, it now is starting to find some serious errors on the drive - the first is "Bad Jump at FAT Partition", and now around 24% through,
it is coming up with countless read errors. I am including a screen shot.
Is this anything to be very worried about? Should I keep going or stop?
The second issue is that when it found one of the folders on the Seagate drive, I plugged in a 2TB travel drive I have to try and save the
data - then the same thing happened. The travel drive got corrupted by the PC also - there was nothing on it which is fine, and I reformatted it on another computer.
I plugged it into another port of my PC to see what would happen (this time a USB2, not 3 port) and it now seems to be working properly. But how do I fix my PC if it
corrupts what I plug in it?
Many thanks for your help.
I hope some people here can rescue me from a horrible computer migraine.
I have a HP Windows 10 PC and store a lot of things on a Seagate 5TB external hard drive. Something went terribly wrong though and I can no longer access any data on it. When you plug in the USB cable the PC will assign it a drive letter and the icon appears, though there is no other data like how much space is available on it etc. Right clicking and choosing Properties just brings up a generic page with Zero listed for data used and available.
I have close to 3TB of family photos, video etc on it - nothing irreplaceable, but it would be a massive migraine in finding and restoring everything.
I was told by someone to try Testdisk. With a quick search it found one of the larger folders I had, and I was able to download and save a lot of data
that way (it took 14 hours, almost staying up all night). But for the rest of the contents, I have had to try a deeper search.
My first issue is that at the rate I am timing its progress, it will take 9 straight days of going through the drive for this. Is this normal?
Secondly, it now is starting to find some serious errors on the drive - the first is "Bad Jump at FAT Partition", and now around 24% through,
it is coming up with countless read errors. I am including a screen shot.
Is this anything to be very worried about? Should I keep going or stop?
The second issue is that when it found one of the folders on the Seagate drive, I plugged in a 2TB travel drive I have to try and save the
data - then the same thing happened. The travel drive got corrupted by the PC also - there was nothing on it which is fine, and I reformatted it on another computer.
I plugged it into another port of my PC to see what would happen (this time a USB2, not 3 port) and it now seems to be working properly. But how do I fix my PC if it
corrupts what I plug in it?
Many thanks for your help.