New HardDrive Loads of files corrupted :(

Gittins

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Got a new harddrive recently WD C Black 1TB as i wanted to put all my music and pictures on it. About a week after putting all my music, pictures, films, porn ;) etc on it some how its corrupted, one of the partitions has totaly gone and does not see it as formated and loads of files on the other two partitions are corupted and not accessable!

My question, is there any way to fix my problem or have i lost everyting? Trying to salage remaining stuff is proving difficult as i had over 20,000 pictures and i'd have to go threw one by one :X Trying to get everything off to another drive is difficult aswell as trying to copy multipul files is stoped by one corrupt file.

Also is there any idea how this might have happened? the drive has not been droped or anything from my knowledge and has not been touched since installed

Thanks for any help
 
Recuva should be able to help you recover your lost files (and is free), unfortunately neither Recuva nor myself can help in tracking down the actual issue, just help you claw back as much as you can.

I'm still hurting from my "great crash of 2005" in which I lost a lifetime of data, including some kickass Unreal Tournament levels that I made.
 
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I'll give it a go, thanks very much, i've had the same hard drive as "my documents" for the last 9 years and was starting to worry incase it died so i got this new drive to put everything on and the plan was to get another to backup aswell, what a diaster that was!
 
No joy, the files are corrupted not lost, like i said, is there any way of deleting or fixing all the corrupted files or any way of exctracting all the good files to another hdd without accessing the corrupted ones as this crash's the drive!!?
 
Gittins said:
Also is there any idea how this might have happened? the drive has not been droped or anything from my knowledge and has not been touched since installed

Thanks for any help
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Manufacturing defect most likely, unfortunated, but even with an "old" tech like magnetic disk, defects and failers will happen sometimes :( The so called "Mean time before failer" is based on thousands of disks running for a short time, rather than a small number of disks running for a long time. It doesnt actually guarantee that any one disk will last more than 10 minutes :(... Although the manufacturers warrenty length generally is an indication of the failer rate... they wont offer long warrenty on unreliable products. But even then bad eggs can slip though, look at the Seagate 7200.11's that were bricking themselves.
 
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