Western Digital or Seagate?
Hah, Seagate.
And that doesn't sound good. Might be on the way out.
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It sounds to me like you may have to look in to getting a new one. As for which brand, i couldn't tell ya This one seems to have sailed its course
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i have only had it since March and it only had games and torrents and movies on it
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http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=810&sid=3&lang=en a place to start?
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My Seagate HDD has this problem, whenever I turn on my computer it goes arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Doesn't matter which brand as it will always be a crapshoot.
Is it external or internal? https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100408011418AAnBHXE
It's not wise downloading to externals.
Also check your hdd with wgdiagnostics http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3, it might take a whole day to run but then you will know if it's really broken.
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Then you are basically screwed.
But you can have as many good new WD drives (had 2 bad ones but also alot of good ones) or any type of brand but also a batch of bad ones, it's a gamble.
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I have Decided to run a CHKDSK /F on it :) hope it does something
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I can almost bet you it won't do much, if you can't even access your files, there might be a few forensic tools out there that can do a few magic things and even saved me from thinking i had a bad drive but i forgot the names, but you can google it.
From what i remember and my experience (got 9 drives) is an IO error is usually a no go though, only thing you can try is another power supply.
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Better copy it if you want to save your data, even if you can "repair" it it will never be 100% safe anymore.
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it now disconnects when i try to put a folder on it. Might just backup the whole folder on another HDD and then repair it then put my stuff back
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If you are using your computer like this, I can't help you.
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here is a picture :) https://gyazo.com/bd781c8bf025adbad8a122f48ead7d99 Plz look
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Is it formatted in NTFS or FAT32? Cause, FAT32 can't store files over 4gb in size.
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That's the error my WD drive had as well. I barely recovered the data and got a replacement from the manufacturer. Meanwhile, my other drives that are all Seagate haven't encountered any issues yet.
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The picture below helped me. Just follow the instructions from step to step carefully.
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MY HDD has a problem where im Copying something to the HDD and then it says the request could not be performed because of an i/o device error. What do i do to fix it.
Edit 1: When i stop using it after a while it stars working but when that time is up it stops working.
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