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500GB Backup Drive working to damaged in a day
OK, hoping someone might be able to help here, or just tell me to give it up, but I'm in a panic here.
So I have a 500GB Samsung Spin point drive (2.5") in a USB3.0 caddy that I have used regularly as a quick temporary backup for when I do PC repairs for friends & family. This instance however I agreed to help a work colleague, so I go through my regular backup procedure (with Macrium Reflect) and it makes the usual file, approx. 70GB this time (50GB Main & 20GB Restore Partitions).
After doing a full reinstall & update of the laptop, the next day I go to access the image to move data back to user folders, and then the problems start, I access the image OK in explore mode, but I cannot copy any data off. I attempt to copy the backup file to another drive, but the transfer crawls to a stop within a few seconds. Restoring the image to another drive also fails.
So I assume problems with the drive in question, starting to sweat a little….
I try a chkdsk, which after running for almost 12 hours, stuck at stage 4, tells me it has problems with the disk… and now I get to using HDDScan to see what’s wrong, after letting it verify for ~5 hours, I check on the progress, it’s at 30%, and nightmare! About 10,000 and rising bad block count!
How on earth it got so many bad blocks all in the one area is anyone’s guess…
But the serious question here: Have I just lost over 25GB of my Work colleague’s data? Or can I, in some way, salvage this?
(He works as a DJ with this Laptop, so he has a lot of custom music & mixes & literally millions of photos….)
Using the drive dosent seem to be damaging it further, it just seems to be where the backup image is stored is all bad blocks!?