Corrupted disk?

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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I have been capturing video all day - now when I go to right click on one of the files I get the spinning circle. It looks like the file is corrupted and it hangs explorer.

I have ran a chkdsk which found errors and fixed them although the problem still exists. How can I get around this? Is my disk likely to be knackered?
 
I did both read on and fix mode. The disk is a Seagate from about 3 years ago.

Everything was fine until some errors happening during capture.

Now I can't even rename folders on the drive.

Any other checks I can do?

If I try to copy any other files it says the speed is something like 40k/sec.
 
I have booted from an Ubuntu disk and have managed to delete the file in question. Hopefully I can get everything I need copied over and then try formatting.

I will probably RMA the drive (if within warranty) but not sure that it will be accepted. I'm guessing they do check before issuing replacements.
 
I am getting a whack of entries in the system event log to do with storage device not responding before timeout. I think it is well knackered.

If I open certain files then it jams the whole machine. It hangs when even trying to shut down. Also I cannot manually run chkdsk using the 'tools' menu. Some of the data must be corrupted and then the drive locks when reading it.
 
It's a Seagate 320Gb from a few years back so I'd say just out of warranty. I already have a 1TB drive in the rig which doesn't have much space used up so I will just use that. I'm managing to get a fair bit transferred over using Linux live cd so hopefully a format might sort something. We will see. Really shocked by drive prices. I got a few 2TB F4s for a NAS about a month ago for around £56 each. Now they are insane.
 
I was able to copy most of the stuff off the drive using live cd. One particular file kept inducing a clicking noise.

I ran a chkdsk overnight with the fix option enabled and after a while it jammed, the clicking started and my event log went full of red errors. Will try seatools.
 
I've ran the long test on SeaTools and it fails. It says there were problems reading from the drive. Before it failed there were lots of errors listed. I reckon it's for the bin.
 
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