Storage Solutions Hard Drive acting funny

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Roxtin

Roxtin

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I have a Segate 1TB HDD which is acting a bit funny since yesterday. While browsing through the data on this HDD it suddenly stopped responding and after sometime gave me "I/O Error". I restarted the comp and it stopped detecting afterwards I changed the SATA cables (considering its the cable's fault) and it detected in both BIOS and in system.

I was again able to enter the HDD and see the folder in there but as soon as I click any of the folder it again hangs and gives the same "I/O Error"

I have tried Defragging it but it won't, tried scanning it using HD Tune Pro - at first it didn't showed up but later started showing damaged sectors (Now I am not sure that is it really damaged or is it just because the HD Tune is unable to access it.

Last I cannot RMA this HDD as I took it out from my Maxtor basics :P

Is there anything which can be done :S
 
its time for Service, if you have the maxtor case then refix the same without any user marks & submit the same near seacare for RMA , lets see..
 
looks like it is a problem with cables only. Why not get a new sata cable (shouldn't cost more than 30 bucks) and try?
 
^ I changed it to a brand new Lian Li SATA cable which I had with me, still will get a new SATA cable and check again.
 
I don't think there is any issue with the hard disk, can be a filesystem/partition issue. Before this IO Error happened, was there a power failure that led to improper shutdown?

To recover data, you can connect this drive to a Ubuntu machine, and recover the data (its the easiest way & most probably you will have access to those folder which u couldn't access in windows). Whatever you cant, use a recovery tool like getbackntfs.

To try and fix the issue, you can delete the partitions and create new ones. Now run the chkdsk d: /r (assuming d is the drive letter) to see if there are any errors - this takes a while to complete (2 to 3 hrs). If this doesn't complete or you get bad sectors in the report - then its a issue with the disk.
 
I have 2 Hdd 1 500gig and second this 1TB. The 1TB is a single partition. I would try the Ubuntu thing though, would a Live CD work?
 
Ok changed the new sata cables and the HDD is back in action, I can access and use all data but HD Tune Pro is giving this error shown in the screenshot. Can anyone explain what does this error actually means as the Scan shows no bad sector.





Anyone...?
 
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