Hello everyone!
Until this June's first days my Toshiba external 2TB HDD never had any problems, but suddenly when I executed a (safe) software's setup I got the "Cyclic redundancy error".
Looking it up on Google I read some scary stuff, so I verified my HDD's status with HDD Sentinel where I found a 9% health and a huge number of sectors/clusters damaged.
After that I hoped for a logic error, and I was pretty sure about it since I NEVER let my HDD fall, be disconnected not properly or any other harmful stuff. I read that to verify a logic error I needed to check the number of damaged sectors in different days and see if it was the same, and unluckily it wasn't over a 2 days span.
Then I started to execute 3-4 scandisks/chkdsk without any results, so I proceeded to copy the files I needed but I discovered another sad message: "Unable to read from source file or disk" (or something like that). Basically I couldn't copy my files from the HDD to the PC (I also tried it with 3 different PCs including a Mac), but paradoxically I could watch videos and pictures from the HDD, without any problem, for their entirety. I also tried copying little amount of data at time but that didn't work too.
I haven't plugged my HDD in a couple of weeks now because I'm scared and I have absolutely no idea of what to do now and I really need those files that are still there (150 GB circa).
By the way if it can help somehow the HDD has always been with about 300/400 GB free out of 2 TB.
Guys I hope in a solution because I truly don't want to lose that data, huge thanks in advance.
Until this June's first days my Toshiba external 2TB HDD never had any problems, but suddenly when I executed a (safe) software's setup I got the "Cyclic redundancy error".
Looking it up on Google I read some scary stuff, so I verified my HDD's status with HDD Sentinel where I found a 9% health and a huge number of sectors/clusters damaged.
After that I hoped for a logic error, and I was pretty sure about it since I NEVER let my HDD fall, be disconnected not properly or any other harmful stuff. I read that to verify a logic error I needed to check the number of damaged sectors in different days and see if it was the same, and unluckily it wasn't over a 2 days span.
Then I started to execute 3-4 scandisks/chkdsk without any results, so I proceeded to copy the files I needed but I discovered another sad message: "Unable to read from source file or disk" (or something like that). Basically I couldn't copy my files from the HDD to the PC (I also tried it with 3 different PCs including a Mac), but paradoxically I could watch videos and pictures from the HDD, without any problem, for their entirety. I also tried copying little amount of data at time but that didn't work too.
I haven't plugged my HDD in a couple of weeks now because I'm scared and I have absolutely no idea of what to do now and I really need those files that are still there (150 GB circa).
By the way if it can help somehow the HDD has always been with about 300/400 GB free out of 2 TB.
Guys I hope in a solution because I truly don't want to lose that data, huge thanks in advance.
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