I got a 1TB WB Caviar Black a few weeks ago to replace a Samsung F3.
Things were going well, the new drive was perceivably faster although nosier.
On Friday, I noticed my system began to slow down, kinda like with an older operating system when the hard drive gets saturated and the whole thing starts to shudder to a halt.
Nothing stressful was running so I looked in the event log and bam, its full of error 11s. Great, so I scheduled a chkdsk and did a reboot.
The output from chkdsk shows multiple "File record segment X is unreadable". I haven't seen that one before.
Finally get into windows, its taking ages to boot. The wallpaper is black and there's no explorer. I had my applications stored on the new drive, and now it seems like the filesystem on that partition is corrupt and invisible to windows.
Obviously not good, I ran WDs DLGDIAG dos app. That one didn't even complete the scan before informing me "Too many errors found - Please contact technical support".
Past hdd failures I've had have been more on the mechanical side, like the classic click of death. This one seemed to come out of nowhere, the drive itself still has no abnormal acoustics.
tl;dr Im guessing the hdd is screwed, all the data is lost and I need to RMA?
Things were going well, the new drive was perceivably faster although nosier.
On Friday, I noticed my system began to slow down, kinda like with an older operating system when the hard drive gets saturated and the whole thing starts to shudder to a halt.
Nothing stressful was running so I looked in the event log and bam, its full of error 11s. Great, so I scheduled a chkdsk and did a reboot.
The output from chkdsk shows multiple "File record segment X is unreadable". I haven't seen that one before.
Finally get into windows, its taking ages to boot. The wallpaper is black and there's no explorer. I had my applications stored on the new drive, and now it seems like the filesystem on that partition is corrupt and invisible to windows.
Obviously not good, I ran WDs DLGDIAG dos app. That one didn't even complete the scan before informing me "Too many errors found - Please contact technical support".
Past hdd failures I've had have been more on the mechanical side, like the classic click of death. This one seemed to come out of nowhere, the drive itself still has no abnormal acoustics.
tl;dr Im guessing the hdd is screwed, all the data is lost and I need to RMA?