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Hi

I recently changed my hard drive in my laptop to an SSD (which has been great!).
I bought a SATA enclosure for my old hard drive and want to use that as a back-up drive.

However, I regularly get messages saying that the drive needs formatting, and is corrupt. I then format it, backup the SSD file data onto it, and it works fine as a backup drive for about a week and then it happens all over again.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong? or can anything be done to prevent this? or should I look at getting something else to use as backup?

Any help, much appreciated.

Cheers,

Graham
 
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D_Know_WD
Then you can just look for some third party HDD testing software as I can not really recommend you one. :)
Look for bad/unallocated/pending sectors. If the overall health status of the drive is fine, then you should consider changing the case.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

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Greety,
There is a free software called SSD-Life "http://www.ssd-life.com/" u can download a trial of this program and use it, it will then display what current state your SSD is in. If your SSD is not old its still possible that the circuitry has a fault, hopefully running this software will solve whether or not to replace it.

Thanks, Jason
 
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There are two possibilities:
1. There is something wrong with the drive itself. You should test it with a brand specific test to see whether this is the case.
2. If the test shows that the drive is fine, most probably the problem is caused by the enclosure.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 
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Hi, it's a Samsung ST320LM001. I've tried the Samsung website but not really sure what to look for.

 
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Answer 2 wouldn't surprise me as it worked fine when it was my main hard drive, and the enclosure seems fairly cheaply made - Dynamode

 
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Then you can just look for some third party HDD testing software as I can not really recommend you one. :)
Look for bad/unallocated/pending sectors. If the overall health status of the drive is fine, then you should consider changing the case.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 
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Quickest solution is to download Crystal Disk Info, remove the hard drive from its enclosure and plug it straight into your motherboard with a SATA cable and power it this way, boot as normal and run Crystal Disk, if its anything other than "Good" something is faulty, if the enclosure is cheaply made it could be the reason but plugging it directly into your Motherboard is your best bet for seeing if the hard drive is faulty.
Thanks, Jason
 
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Thanks

 
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