Hey all,
I had my backup drive fail on me a while back but luckily had 99% backed up elsewhere. However, there are a few files I missed which I would like to attempt recovering.
The problem is this - just plugging the old drive (WD Green) to my PC, slows everything down to a snails pace, I mean beyond slow. Just opening a folder will sit there for upwards of 10 minutes and windows itself take 50 times longer to boot up.
I even tried reformatting in the hope it would speed it up so I could try to recover the files using Recuva but its still ridiculously slow.
Have tried running numerous check disks and WD error tools, anti virus, malware, defrag etc but it always seems to pause at the same spot (which is about folder's D >onwards). If I cannot get past this point, what do I do?
I believe the problem stemmed from a very fragmented file system - I had just been downloading years worth of old backups which, I can only assume, were also fragmented, leading to the drive just bricking itself. I
In hind sight, I should have seen coming as my photo folder used to take ages to open. I stupidly thought it was just how HDD's were after using an SSD for so long. My own fault for neglecting to defrag.
There is no obvious noise coming from the drive so don't think its a mechanical fault.
What are my next moves?
Thanks in advance,
Hiijinx
I had my backup drive fail on me a while back but luckily had 99% backed up elsewhere. However, there are a few files I missed which I would like to attempt recovering.
The problem is this - just plugging the old drive (WD Green) to my PC, slows everything down to a snails pace, I mean beyond slow. Just opening a folder will sit there for upwards of 10 minutes and windows itself take 50 times longer to boot up.
I even tried reformatting in the hope it would speed it up so I could try to recover the files using Recuva but its still ridiculously slow.
Have tried running numerous check disks and WD error tools, anti virus, malware, defrag etc but it always seems to pause at the same spot (which is about folder's D >onwards). If I cannot get past this point, what do I do?
I believe the problem stemmed from a very fragmented file system - I had just been downloading years worth of old backups which, I can only assume, were also fragmented, leading to the drive just bricking itself. I
In hind sight, I should have seen coming as my photo folder used to take ages to open. I stupidly thought it was just how HDD's were after using an SSD for so long. My own fault for neglecting to defrag.
There is no obvious noise coming from the drive so don't think its a mechanical fault.
What are my next moves?
Thanks in advance,
Hiijinx
