This is going to be long and confused and the questions at the end simple. But I need to give you the background.
My Seagate external HDD 5TB has been wonky for a while. And yes I know I should have backed it up. But in any case after a couple of system crashes i suddenly showed up as Local disk, inaccessible, etc, etc. Showed as RAW in Disk mgm. Downloaded Seatools and first two basic tests were green, then did the Short test and it warned there were bad sectors. For some reason it suddenly shows up as an SCIS drive in Device Manager and it apparently works fine and has migrated and has updated drivers. Shows up with proper name in file explorer but still not accessible Hmm. Go back to Disk mgm suddenly it's NTSF GPT and there are four partitions, two unallocated, one other and one main partition which corresponds to size. Every partition is healthy. It shows up as Seagate Expansion in File Explorer but Properties show 0/0.
I open Easeus Partition Master, check properties for the main partition and halleluljah! Every damned file is there with the proper size (it's media files). So I figure I'll clone it to the new hdd I just bought, Except, I'm an idiot so I contact Microsoft and ask what I should do, they tell me to run cmd chkdsk LETTER: f/ r/x/ Righto, I do so and now I suddenly have two Seagate hdd with the same letter in File Explorer - still not accessible. Meanwhile after 18 hours in stage 4, 178 files out of 95720 files have been checked and the estimated time remaining is two weeks give or take a few hours. I hop back to Easeus Partition Master, yes the same structure, main partition correct, *unallocated 2, :* Other 128MB, unused 0. Go to properties of main parition, nope, no files there.
So (finally) question, can I cancel the chkdsk command, and 2 can I clone the healthy partition to the new hdd, possibly even while the damned chkdsk is running? Partition still shows that the healthy parition is filled. I want to avoid recovery since my experience is that 90% of all media files recovered are unplayable and unfixable.
This honestly is the weirdest thing I have ever come across. Has anyone had any similar experience and how do I solve the bloody thing?
My Seagate external HDD 5TB has been wonky for a while. And yes I know I should have backed it up. But in any case after a couple of system crashes i suddenly showed up as Local disk, inaccessible, etc, etc. Showed as RAW in Disk mgm. Downloaded Seatools and first two basic tests were green, then did the Short test and it warned there were bad sectors. For some reason it suddenly shows up as an SCIS drive in Device Manager and it apparently works fine and has migrated and has updated drivers. Shows up with proper name in file explorer but still not accessible Hmm. Go back to Disk mgm suddenly it's NTSF GPT and there are four partitions, two unallocated, one other and one main partition which corresponds to size. Every partition is healthy. It shows up as Seagate Expansion in File Explorer but Properties show 0/0.
I open Easeus Partition Master, check properties for the main partition and halleluljah! Every damned file is there with the proper size (it's media files). So I figure I'll clone it to the new hdd I just bought, Except, I'm an idiot so I contact Microsoft and ask what I should do, they tell me to run cmd chkdsk LETTER: f/ r/x/ Righto, I do so and now I suddenly have two Seagate hdd with the same letter in File Explorer - still not accessible. Meanwhile after 18 hours in stage 4, 178 files out of 95720 files have been checked and the estimated time remaining is two weeks give or take a few hours. I hop back to Easeus Partition Master, yes the same structure, main partition correct, *unallocated 2, :* Other 128MB, unused 0. Go to properties of main parition, nope, no files there.
So (finally) question, can I cancel the chkdsk command, and 2 can I clone the healthy partition to the new hdd, possibly even while the damned chkdsk is running? Partition still shows that the healthy parition is filled. I want to avoid recovery since my experience is that 90% of all media files recovered are unplayable and unfixable.
This honestly is the weirdest thing I have ever come across. Has anyone had any similar experience and how do I solve the bloody thing?
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