I'm worried my external hard drive is dying. Whenever I plug it in I get prompted to scan for errors and read and writing to the disk to insanely slow all of a sudden. I've tried it on different USB ports and with a different cable just to eliminate those variables.
I'm hoping there's a way to fix it as right now getting a new drive is a little out of my price range but I'm not really sure how to troubleshoot this sort of thing.
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You should also allow it to scan for errors and repair if necessary, as well as run a "defrag" on the drive to make sure each file is "all together", rather than spread across different sections of the drive (which can cause slowness).
I've run check disk on it with just the first option checked and that found nothing, decided to run it with both options checked and it's been running for hours and the progress bar isn't even half way yet (not that progress bars are ever really accurate). Interestingly the drive doesn't show up in the defrag tool. I just assumed this was because it's an external drive but perhaps not. It doesn't show up under Drives in the Device Manager either.
Actually when I go to the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon it says "Eject USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge" which I'm not familiar with.
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