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I have a few tricks for that but they can be rather involved. If you find that you need other data off of it that you can't get then let me know. I would not trust the drive or try to repair it. The main problem here is that with this many that almost always means that the drive will continue to degrade to the point where it will have so many bad sectors that it will be completely unusable and unrecoverable. These will only be reallocated and added to the first number above when an attempt is made to write to them. They are inside files that you are trying to access and may even be in important system parts of the drive.

These are your problem that is causing the errors when trying to use the drive. This means that 491 (1EB hex) sectors are marked as not being readable. The threshold for disk health is either 140 or 320 (I'm not sure if that number is hex or decimal). That means it has found 561 (231 hex) bad sectors and marked them as bad so the drive does not use them anymore. I'm afraid that it looks like a mechanical failure. Ran for only a second and says completed without errors, or never startedĮdited by 589661, 22 August 2012 - 11:46 PM.

My passport external hard drive causes computer windows#

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.3

Whether or not it passed the short testĭepending on those results, I will tell you what to do next to check/repair filesystem errors.

When the Status says Finished in the Test Manager window double click the entry and it will tell you if it passed or not. Next close the attributes window and click the orb/button with the harddrive and magnifying glass on it. Select your Passport from the dropdown list (if it is there)Ĭlick the SMART button and let us see the results (copy and paste, hopefully it won't be too messy ) Run it (it may take a bit to show up once you start it so be patient) Lately, I've been using HDDScan to do this in Windows One checks for physical damage and the other for filesystem damage.

My passport external hard drive causes computer password#

If you buy another one, you probably want to get one without automatic encryption (that you have no password for) and one that can be removed and connected via another enclosure or straight to the motherboard like you expected this to do before you opened it and found the proprietary connector.Īs for repairing it we can use two free programs to determine the extent of the damage. You can't do that with these because they have automatic encryption in the chips on those connectors even if you don't set a password on it and when you try to replace the connector the chips on it often have a different key so they don't work Typically, when something like that breaks you buy another one and rip out the connector and put it on the broken one then recover the data. That weird connection that you found when you opened it up has been a real pain for recovery professionals. Okay, I'm glad you got the important stuff.

Try to repair the drive (and possibly lose the files on it)Īlso let me know the model# of your passport if you can see it.

Both of these actions can cause the damage to grow to areas that are not damaged yet. The two most dangerous things you can do to it now is to try to write something to it or try to read bad sectors. Then we can recover files from the image (you may need a drive with 1TB of free space to do this depending on how damaged it is). If it's a lot of data that you need to get from it still then you might be best off making a rescue image of it first since the bad sectors will probably cause errors or make the copying very slow like you've already seen. I would suggest booting with a Linux Live CD (I can give you instructions) and then getting the exact files that are most important from it. Often I can fix them and they are fine but yours has thrown a lot of red flags so you want to focus on data recovery before trying to repair it. I've been called to work on quite a few Passports.