After more than 4 years of use, never being dropped or hit by accident, my 1.5 tb iPRO Drive started saying goodbye or so I am afraid.
I was one of those who never unplugged it from the port after "safely removing it first from windows 7". Never had any issues at all until 4 days ago when my nightmare started.
I will try to recap everything to see if someone can tell what my expectations should be now.
1- I decided to replace the unit due to its physical size. I bought a small Toshiba Canvio basics 3 storage unit 2.0 TB.
2- I plugged both units and after making sure all the Data from my iPRO was selected (1.34 TB in average) I dragged it to the new unit.
3- Letters started popping up saying "File cannot be read, it may be corrupted". Skipped all those files and after when I tried to erased them windows started going uncommonly slow that I just unplugged the iPRO and it came all back to normal.
4-Then the "G:\ is not accessible. Data error..." message appeared. Only choice given by OS was formatting HD. But with 1.34 TB of Data I had to look for another solution.
5-Installed "Find and Mount" and selected "Mount as.." and chose :S letter. I was then able to see its content but had no access to any of it and copying it was going to take ages. As for :G (the original partition) it was unreachable and it was freezing OS when trying anything unless I unplugged the iPRO.
6-Then Installed EaseUS Recovery Data and the scanning of the :S partition took 30 hours. When clicked on recovery, it was going to take some 4019 hrs! So I cancelled the precess but things started taking so long that I had to unplug the unit again!.
7-After that iPRO started making unusual clicking sounds. When googling about it..OMG!! I learn all the things I never knew about how to treat your HD.
Now the sound doesn't stop and tryinig a second scanning with EaseUS was a complete failure, the unit got stuck and the noise (which I suspect is what is called the click of death) did not stop.
What can be done up to now in such a state? What could be my chances to save the Data ?(hours spent on organizing them!!!) But even if they matter to me I don't think I can afford thousands of dollars taking it to a Recovery company.
I am hopefully thinking it could be just an electrical issue or so. I am clueless now on what to do next.
Any help will be appreciated.
I was one of those who never unplugged it from the port after "safely removing it first from windows 7". Never had any issues at all until 4 days ago when my nightmare started.
I will try to recap everything to see if someone can tell what my expectations should be now.
1- I decided to replace the unit due to its physical size. I bought a small Toshiba Canvio basics 3 storage unit 2.0 TB.
2- I plugged both units and after making sure all the Data from my iPRO was selected (1.34 TB in average) I dragged it to the new unit.
3- Letters started popping up saying "File cannot be read, it may be corrupted". Skipped all those files and after when I tried to erased them windows started going uncommonly slow that I just unplugged the iPRO and it came all back to normal.
4-Then the "G:\ is not accessible. Data error..." message appeared. Only choice given by OS was formatting HD. But with 1.34 TB of Data I had to look for another solution.
5-Installed "Find and Mount" and selected "Mount as.." and chose :S letter. I was then able to see its content but had no access to any of it and copying it was going to take ages. As for :G (the original partition) it was unreachable and it was freezing OS when trying anything unless I unplugged the iPRO.
6-Then Installed EaseUS Recovery Data and the scanning of the :S partition took 30 hours. When clicked on recovery, it was going to take some 4019 hrs! So I cancelled the precess but things started taking so long that I had to unplug the unit again!.
7-After that iPRO started making unusual clicking sounds. When googling about it..OMG!! I learn all the things I never knew about how to treat your HD.
Now the sound doesn't stop and tryinig a second scanning with EaseUS was a complete failure, the unit got stuck and the noise (which I suspect is what is called the click of death) did not stop.
What can be done up to now in such a state? What could be my chances to save the Data ?(hours spent on organizing them!!!) But even if they matter to me I don't think I can afford thousands of dollars taking it to a Recovery company.
I am hopefully thinking it could be just an electrical issue or so. I am clueless now on what to do next.
Any help will be appreciated.
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