Handroid Solo
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Hi there.
For the past week I have been retrieving 2 TB of movies from my Seagate 3TB Expansion Desk drive (USB 3). It started acting funny after my room mate accidentally flipped the main power circuit for my bedroom while I was in the middle of a transfer. Oddly enough, I was in the middle of retrieving videos from a 6+ year old Verbatim 500 GB which had an ongoing power circuit issue when he flipped the switch. I was salvaging those videos to this 3TB drive at that moment. He killed that Verbatim dead to rights with the surge, and I believe it caused the issues on this Seagate 3TB.
I can still transfer data to and from the Seagate anywhere from 35-90 MB/s depending on if the other drive is a USB 3 as well. But it just will not play many movies, and HD particularly bad. I mainly use Kodi (XBMC), but have tried VLC and MPC. All fail at the same points or close in the different players. I assumed corrupt files but when I copy them to other drives then play them they work :thumb:.
So, I ran chkdsk I: /f /r . It ran thru quickly saying no issues. Every indicator has shown the drive as healthy. I ran the zero out option with a format in Partition Wizard. Didn't help. Frustrated last night I decided to run chkdsk I: /r one last time. It hung at 10%, and thinking maybe its doing something, I left it, but it was going for nearly 24 hours. I finally cancelled the chkdsk and ran a surface test with Partition Wizard and now after an hour or so, I am getting some bad blocks and Partition Wizard slows right down when it hits one. So far three.
To add, if I move the USB 3 cable it sometimes clicks the drive off and it disappears from Windows. I have had it show up in Partition Wizard as Bad Disk, but after a reboot the drive shows up, sharing and security settings all back intact. I might reboot again, and the drive simply won't show, or might take ten minutes to pop up. Then I might try and access the drive and get the warning "You must format this drive", but a reboot and its back. This has led to a long week of data retrieval.
I've replaced the USB cable, but it still can disconnect, leading me to believe the receiver slot and its attached circuitry might be shorting or whatever as well.
This poor drive. Its maybe just near a year and a half old, not a scratch on it, not making any funny sounds or nothing, my newest one, and was in fact a replacement for an HP 3 TB that failed on me back then.
I've been at it off and on for a week or so now and Partition Wizard is currently showing 197+ hrs time remaining :shock:
Am I wasting my time here ? Does it actually repair bad blocks, and with the circuitry sensitivity is it worth the effort ? Would I be able to salvage the drive from the case maybe ? I am an avid computer and tech user, but not expert on the hardware diagnosing end of things. Should I just toss this thing ?
For the past week I have been retrieving 2 TB of movies from my Seagate 3TB Expansion Desk drive (USB 3). It started acting funny after my room mate accidentally flipped the main power circuit for my bedroom while I was in the middle of a transfer. Oddly enough, I was in the middle of retrieving videos from a 6+ year old Verbatim 500 GB which had an ongoing power circuit issue when he flipped the switch. I was salvaging those videos to this 3TB drive at that moment. He killed that Verbatim dead to rights with the surge, and I believe it caused the issues on this Seagate 3TB.
I can still transfer data to and from the Seagate anywhere from 35-90 MB/s depending on if the other drive is a USB 3 as well. But it just will not play many movies, and HD particularly bad. I mainly use Kodi (XBMC), but have tried VLC and MPC. All fail at the same points or close in the different players. I assumed corrupt files but when I copy them to other drives then play them they work :thumb:.
So, I ran chkdsk I: /f /r . It ran thru quickly saying no issues. Every indicator has shown the drive as healthy. I ran the zero out option with a format in Partition Wizard. Didn't help. Frustrated last night I decided to run chkdsk I: /r one last time. It hung at 10%, and thinking maybe its doing something, I left it, but it was going for nearly 24 hours. I finally cancelled the chkdsk and ran a surface test with Partition Wizard and now after an hour or so, I am getting some bad blocks and Partition Wizard slows right down when it hits one. So far three.
To add, if I move the USB 3 cable it sometimes clicks the drive off and it disappears from Windows. I have had it show up in Partition Wizard as Bad Disk, but after a reboot the drive shows up, sharing and security settings all back intact. I might reboot again, and the drive simply won't show, or might take ten minutes to pop up. Then I might try and access the drive and get the warning "You must format this drive", but a reboot and its back. This has led to a long week of data retrieval.
I've replaced the USB cable, but it still can disconnect, leading me to believe the receiver slot and its attached circuitry might be shorting or whatever as well.
This poor drive. Its maybe just near a year and a half old, not a scratch on it, not making any funny sounds or nothing, my newest one, and was in fact a replacement for an HP 3 TB that failed on me back then.
I've been at it off and on for a week or so now and Partition Wizard is currently showing 197+ hrs time remaining :shock:
Am I wasting my time here ? Does it actually repair bad blocks, and with the circuitry sensitivity is it worth the effort ? Would I be able to salvage the drive from the case maybe ? I am an avid computer and tech user, but not expert on the hardware diagnosing end of things. Should I just toss this thing ?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus M11AD
- CPU
- Quad-Core Intel i3 - 4150 @ 3.50 Ghz
- Memory
- 12 GB RAM
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 40" and 26" TV/monitors and small 19" monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1080 and 720
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB Internal *2 - 1TB Seagate (USB 2) *1 - 3TB Seagate Expansion (USB 3) *1 - 3TB Western Digital MyBook (USB 3) *1 - 1TB Seagate GoFlex Desk (USB 3)
- PSU
- Stock
- Case
- Stock
- Cooling
- Stock fan
- Keyboard
- Wireless Keyboard 3000 v2
- Mouse
- Wireless Mouse 5000
- Internet Speed
- 50 Mbps
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender and regular Malwarebytes scans