[erebaras]

Hey everyone

The other week I wanted to free up space on my laptop, so I transferred everything from my laptop onto my external hard drive and deleted it from the laptop. A few years ago I lent the hard drive to a teacher who partioned it, everything from my laptop is on 'Disk 2' and random stuff on 'Disk 1'. Just now I connected my hard drive and it said I needed to format 'disk 2', now from what I gather that erases everything from it... 'disk 2' has been changed to 'local disk(H' and something came up saying "cyclic redundancy check". Disk 1 works, by the way.
I've literally not done anything to it... It's been working fine. This is years worth of stuff so I seriously cannot lose over 100 gigs of stuff, this is memories, photos, etc.. What can I do ?

The hard drive is an ASUS leather case 2.5" ten-ssxy(it doesn't say anything specific for all I can see but there is a label on the back with lots of info so)

Thanks for the help in advance

[red2678]

Sorry to say , but it sounds like you have hardrive failure.

You can read more about the error you are getting here

There are a lot of tools that can "fix" bad drives. The one I use is called Spinrite http://www.grc.com/sr/themovie.htm

Hope that helps,

Red

[Hughv]

This isn't HD failure, but a problem with the partition.
I'd try Test Disk first.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[red2678]

I did not say he had it. I said it sounds like it. He stated that he did not make any changes to the partition table/structure/drive lettering (which is pretty hard to do with a click and not going to the disk manager or using a piece of 3rd party software).

I do agree with you though, I have used testdisk, and that should defiantly be tried before a tool like spinrite.

@erebaras First, personally I would run a simple hard drive diagnostic. Most can be used from a tool called hiren’s boot cd. I use this in my shop on a daily basis. It has almost every tool you would need, and then some.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

You can download it and burn it to CD (the dl comes with a ISO and even a customization tool). Boot off the CD and there you go. Find out if you do indeed have any bad sectors/issue with the drive. Directions on downloading and using Hirens is at the above link.

If your drive is fine, I would do just what erebaras said, try to correct the drives partition structure.

If all else fails, you would use a tool like spinrite.

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