External Buffalo Hard Drive uninitialized

fy003

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Hi all,

I need help. My external 1Tb USB 3.0 hard drive got corrupt. So I recovered the data and then formatted it from Windows(right click and format). After that the data transfer speed became very slow(in KBps). So I looked up on the internet and on some random thread, it asked to go to properties of the HD and change policy from "Quick Removal" to "Better Performance".

I did that, the speed did not improve however while copying data to it my system crashed. Now the HD is shown as unallocated and not initialized under Disk Management. On right clicking the disk,all options are greyed. I tried to format again however I get a cyclic redundancy error.

Here is the link to the image of my disk management.
http://imageshack.com/a/img823/342/w8p2.png

Any help and information will be much appreciated.

Thanks.
 

fy003

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yeah I did. It does not give me any option to create a simple volume.
Please refer the image attached. All the options are greyed, so I cannot select any.
 

fy003

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Yes it gives an option to initialize disk. After that it asks for the partition style wherein I select MBR and press OK.
It fails with the data error(cyclic redundancy error).
 

fy003

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I did a Zero Write on the HD using WD Data LifeGuard Diagnostics. I was able to create a simple volume and then format from Disk Management.
I also ran a full check using the same tool mentioned above. It detected too many bad sectors. I believe there are quite a few Hard bad sectors on the HD. Though now I am able to use the HD, it gives terrible speed(<1MBps). I believe it can turn out dead any day now.
 

fy003

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I will do that and post the result. Though the smart test shows pass, I am not able to make sense of the value of the attributes.