I/O error - bad address mark - help needed please

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The_Abyss

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I've just returned back from a week away and powered up my PC to copy over my holiday photos to be greeted with the error message "I/O error bad address mark".

The drive in question is a Samsung 1TB drive, sitting in my main PC along with another 2 similar drives. I use them for storage and back of up photos, but the failed drive is my main drive. The OC runs off another drive, a Samsung SSD.

The drive still shows as being around 50% full but when clicking into the folders many are showing as empty - I reckon around 90% of the files appear to be gone. I'm guessing the drive is damaged, but can the data on it be retrieved? I reckon it has been 3 or 4 weeks since my last back up, and there are some photos on there that I'd like to recover.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I should have added, I've used an app called GetDataBack for NTFS, as I had it installed. It is refusing to do so, saying that it has not found any NTFS file systems. It is formatted as NTFS, so I'm a little stuck.
 
Sorry for the delay in getting back - thanks to everything who replied.

PiKe - you might just have been a saviour with such a simple solution, yet one that I'd overlooked. I swapped the cable and the errors disappeared. I then immediately made a back up, and right at the end of it the errors started to come back. This leads me to think that the problem is with a connection either on the hdd or on the motherboard, but either way I've retrieved the data, and perhaps not a moment too soon.

I'll now create another backup to my NAS. I've started to look at cloud backup too, but with 500 gb to deal with, an amount that's steadily increasing, I can't seem to find much from the standard, 'trusted' suppliers.

PiKe ftw :) Thank you once again.
 
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