DROPPED my Western Digital External drive!!

Hi SevenForums Community,


I just accidentally hit the power cord running from my external 1TB Western Digital MyBook Essentials with my foot and the drive crashed over 2 feet to the ground!

Nothing is cracked.. And the drive still has all the files on it and it playing music and movies just fine... but I think i should check it and stuff. The only thing that happened the connectors on the back are off alignment now with the plastic casing so i have to slide over to insert cables. This drive has everything of mine that i own on it and I'm worried about it.

Is there any software i should use to check this drive for errors?

Thanks so much..!

I would just open a command shell and run a chkdsk <drive letter>: on the drive, and let that report any possible errors.

chkdsk /r from a command prompt will check and repair errors in the file system, if possible.

You should also go to WD website and download their drive utility for your particular model and give your drive a thorough test.

And you should make a backup of what you now have----I assume that isn't your policy. You might want to rethink the reasons you don't do it.

Great advice by ignat ! Use the forum search tool and you will see many have problems with WD and other external drives. Backup now while you can.

Thanks for the advice

ok thanks for all the help... running checkdisk now its takes ages ^___-

jwthe3 said:

ok thanks for all the help... running checkdisk now its takes ages ^___-

Don't know what you mean by "ages". Is that like 20 minutes or something? Is it taking long because it's finding a lot of errors?

Checkdisk has been on verifying file data for hours, It's almost done though... Hours is ages to me, I'm used to things going fast with my pc..