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External USB Drive failed B/U's
All, I just want to run a few things by you all to verify my next steps... My Hitachi Touro 1TB external USB drive has experienced multiple failed backups recently. I am using Win7 backup and restore and it has worked acceptably up until about the last 3 backup attempts. It gets to about 57% and then fails. I have run chkdsk on the drive with no errors. I have verified the NTFS file format. I have swapped it to a different USB port on my backplane (it is not running through a hub) with the same results. Are there any tests I can run to determine if it is truly a disk problem and not a controller problem? If the disk is still ok I can remove it from its enclosure and get a new enclosure with a new controller. But if the disk is truly toast (I know that the Hitachi's don't have a reputation for longevity) I will buy a new external drive. Any additional things that might be suggested before I buy a new drive? Thanks for any feedback.