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USB 3.0 External HD gets corrupt on shutdown
Hi,
I have a Seagate 2TB external drive for backup up. It is partitioned into W: and X: each 1TB. W: is used only for weekly backups with Windows Backup, and X: is used daily only by FreeFileSync to mirror my important data files.
I have been getting this error ID 4103 from Window Backup: "The backup did not complete because of an error writing to the backup location W:\. The error is: The last backup was not successful because the backup location has a corrupted file system. (0x81000008)"
I ran chkdsk /r W: and it repaired W: and marked 1 bad cluster. Backup worked after that.
But the disk just gets corrupt again. chkdsk /f W: fixes it (but takes 4 hours), but later in day gets error ID 55 and a few days later error ID 11 and when starting up get a notice that W: should be checked. Backup fails with the drive.
After chkdsk fixes it, SeaTools tests on the drive all PASS. Can the bad cluster be the source of the problems (the vendor will replace the drive if I want)? Or could it be a USB problem? Windows says all the drivers are correct.
Also I noticed in the log that various errors have been occurring lots (started in August 1 month after I got the drive) - usually the first message below, but sometime others
ID 11:
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2."
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR3."
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3"
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR4."
ID 136: "The default transaction resource manager on volume W: encountered an error while starting and its metadata was reset. The data contains the error code." (also some on X:, one for C: )
ID 137: "The default transaction resource manager on volume W: encountered a non-retryable error and could not start. The data contains the error code." (once for X: )
ID 51: "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR2 during a paging operation."
ID 55: "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume W:." (also X: )
ID 57: "The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."
Thanks