DJMikeJames
Hi Everyone & Happy Christmas.
I was this afternnon as with the last few days converting cd's to wav files to my external hard drive all of a sudden the hard drive slows down and all it wants to do is scan. I am running windows 7 64bit 6 gig of ram. When i plug the drive in it starts up ok. I have run a test on the drive and windows says it's fine but then do a far more intensive scan and it stops at 561 everytime. I have tried copying the files over too another hard drive but having problems. Can anyone else suggest anything as I do not wish to start again
I was this afternnon as with the last few days converting cd's to wav files to my external hard drive all of a sudden the hard drive slows down and all it wants to do is scan. I am running windows 7 64bit 6 gig of ram. When i plug the drive in it starts up ok. I have run a test on the drive and windows says it's fine but then do a far more intensive scan and it stops at 561 everytime. I have tried copying the files over too another hard drive but having problems. Can anyone else suggest anything as I do not wish to start again
geposted Wed 22 Dec 10 @ 2:36 pm
dj_jforz
Who the hell says "Happy Christmas"? It's Merry Christmas...
geposted Thu 23 Dec 10 @ 2:19 am
si1988uk
Maybe run checkdisk on that sucker and see if it finds any bad segments
geposted Thu 23 Dec 10 @ 5:41 am
DJMikeJames
Hi thx for your reply. I used Hard Disc Sentinel and it does have a problem it found over 2,000 bad sectors I have tried using windows hard drive tools. But it would get stuck. Would you know of a Program that is Free to recover the files.
geposted Thu 23 Dec 10 @ 8:59 am
jpboggis
You should always have at least one backup of your entire music collection (Preferably two, on separate drives.)
If you are ripping a large number of CD's, then you should backup as you go along, just in case (Hard drives can and will fail when you least expect it.)
If you are lucky, then the corruption may only affect a few files on the disk, so you may be able to copy the rest off the drive. Try copying files a few at a time until you find the corrupt ones. Skip over these and copy the rest of the good files off the disk.
If you are ripping a large number of CD's, then you should backup as you go along, just in case (Hard drives can and will fail when you least expect it.)
If you are lucky, then the corruption may only affect a few files on the disk, so you may be able to copy the rest off the drive. Try copying files a few at a time until you find the corrupt ones. Skip over these and copy the rest of the good files off the disk.
geposted Thu 23 Dec 10 @ 4:56 pm