Solved New 4T HD acting up, cant see contents now.

[NeilMac]

I installed a new HD 4T Blue yesterday using DskManger, transfered 1T yesterday.
Today it wont allow anything to be added, it just hangs. Did a right click properties check dsk and now cant see the contents and the drive name changed to local drive (D.
Tried again with properties and it hangs and the whole system just hangs (except the music im listening to.
tried CMD chkdsk D: and it just blinks on the next line.
Grabbed DiskGenius and when I try and run it it just hangs at start up.
I have 6 drives on my workstation, the other 5 drives work fine as usual.
Ran out of ideas.

Thanks!

 

[NeilMac]

CMD came back finaly.
"All NTFS boot sectors are unreadable and corrupt. Cannot continue.
Running WD data lifeguard as well and is now running (its showing up now), see what happens. Still need to know what happened if the HD data shows up again.

 

[Megahertz07]

Welcome to the Forum.


Is the disk low formatted as Legacy - MBR or UEFI - GPT?
How may partitions you have on it?
Is it an internal HDD or external (USB or eSATA)?

 

[NeilMac]

GPT, Internal,Whole disk used (no partitions) SATA

 

[Megahertz07]

Let's wait for the WD diagnostic.

 

[NeilMac]

says its all ok, but whne I restarted it hung, after 10 min I just shut it down. Running track scanner, contents show up but still cant transfer.

 

[Megahertz07]

Use Crystal disk to see the SMART of the disk Downloading File /70096/CrystalDiskInfo7_8_3.exe - CrystalDiskInfo - OSDN
Don't need to be installed

 

[NeilMac]

Thanks!
This is what it says.

 

[Megahertz07]

Hardware seems to be good.
Open a CMD window as admin and type
chkdsk D: /f

 

[NeilMac]

running now......

 

[NeilMac]

Still Running....

 

[NeilMac]

Finally stopped.
message " Insufficient disk space to fix volume bitmap. CHKDSK aborted.

 

[Megahertz07]

My suggestion is to start from the beginning.
Open Disk Management select the disk, delete all partitions, create new, format as NTFS.

 

[NeilMac]

Need to get the data off first, been running extended hd test/scan, still running after 15 hours.

 

[NeilMac]

Finally stopped running, said it passed. Transferring files now, looks like its moving them so fingers crossed and then Il wipe it again.

 

[Megahertz07]

You MUST have a backup for all your data.
Never trust a disk.

I have two disks (same size) with OS. One is my working disk and the other my backup disk.
Backup HDD has win 7 and a lot of tools. It also has a working disk image.
Once a week I connect the power cable to it, boot from it and then do a data backup of my working disk. When done I shut down and disconnect the power cable.

 

[NeilMac]

Yes, I was thinking putting together some old parts and have a backup server machine.
Doing another checkdisk and surface scan this morning to make sure disk is alright before moving data again. HD's have been good to me fingers crossed lol
Thanks!

 

[NeilMac]

So far no problems, running fine.
Thanks!

 

[Megahertz07]

Good. Please mark this thread as solved