power cord pulled while writing on seagate expansion 3tb harddrive

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ng80092a

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yesterday i bought a seagate expansion 3tb hardrive, while writing stuff into the drive at 20mB/s my sister accidentaly stepped on the power cord and the drive well.. was sudden out of power

i know the data i was writing is safe because i replaced it.. and checksumed it

but can anything else gone wrong? how do i know what problems that may have caused in the drive? can other data previously writed be messed up now?

edit: might data saved in the future be compromised because of this even?
 
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Chkdsk should be sufficient since it will look for bad sectors and map them out if there was physical damage, although I think it unlikely, the drive would not write to the damaged sectors ever again.
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The data is still all there, but the master boot record is toast. You *may* be able to use some file recovery software to retrieve some or all (don't write anything else to the drive until you recover what you want). I use Recuva, but there are many file recovery tools available.

Don't ever rely on a USB HDD for important backup without additional backup locations because of this particular issue.
 
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am i stupid or has everyone gone insane?

"the master boot record is toast" - buddy the 10gb copied previous the incident and the 10 gb after the incident, including the file transfered at the moment of the cable pull, were all checksumed and are all perfectly fine, also a full complete checkdisk was performed earlier today and no problem whatsoever was found..

you guys.. why do you talk without knowing what you are talking about? you are just totally unreliable
 
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Sorry, your post was unclear to me. I read that most of your data was gone, when you said gone wrong.

Of course since you still actually have your data and you verified it, it is unlikely that there is anything wrong other than where you keep the drive in the path of foot traffic.
 
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no problem buddy, the question is, how can i be sure that i will have no problem in writing in the same block in the future because of this incident? is there some kind of writing test that doesnt erase data? or a read like chkdsk is enough?
 
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