I made a topic a month ago asking about why my 2TB Western Digital External Hard Drive was transferring slow and i got the usual responses that perhaps it was dying or had bad sectors. I tried doing a disk check and data recovery but none of it worked.
It started when i was transferring files to the external hard drive from my PC and suddenly the transfer froze and i just cancelled it. When i took the drive out and plugged it back in, the computer wouldn't recognize it and it just kept blinking..i thought it died until i just left it in and suddenly it showed up as a Local Disk..and then eventually showing as My Passport and i was able to access the files. Unfortunately everything was really slow from accessing the files to transferring..it was literally a slow crawl as i tried to transfer files one by one and it would take 2-6 hours just to transfer one big media file
so after 2 weeks of agonizing torture of transferring them, i just did it anyway because i couldn't do anything else and i didn't want to lose these files..but recently i was transferring another file and the transfer speed started going super fast like it used to do... I thought it was a fluke but then i started transferring another and again it was really fast. even accessing the file directory was fast and i knew then that the drive was working again and i was able to back up everything in a day. i figured it was just a one time thing so after i unplugged it and plugged it back in a couple days later, again it showed up and i was able to access everything again just fine and there was no slow downs or problems etc..
does anyone know what happened to make the drive just work again? i mean like i said, i did a disk check and it failed to fix anything and i never formatted it either and the SMART test never worked..
It started when i was transferring files to the external hard drive from my PC and suddenly the transfer froze and i just cancelled it. When i took the drive out and plugged it back in, the computer wouldn't recognize it and it just kept blinking..i thought it died until i just left it in and suddenly it showed up as a Local Disk..and then eventually showing as My Passport and i was able to access the files. Unfortunately everything was really slow from accessing the files to transferring..it was literally a slow crawl as i tried to transfer files one by one and it would take 2-6 hours just to transfer one big media file
so after 2 weeks of agonizing torture of transferring them, i just did it anyway because i couldn't do anything else and i didn't want to lose these files..but recently i was transferring another file and the transfer speed started going super fast like it used to do... I thought it was a fluke but then i started transferring another and again it was really fast. even accessing the file directory was fast and i knew then that the drive was working again and i was able to back up everything in a day. i figured it was just a one time thing so after i unplugged it and plugged it back in a couple days later, again it showed up and i was able to access everything again just fine and there was no slow downs or problems etc..
does anyone know what happened to make the drive just work again? i mean like i said, i did a disk check and it failed to fix anything and i never formatted it either and the SMART test never worked..
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