Help With My External HDD

External HDD Problems

I have a seagate 1tb portable external hdd. It recently told me i have to scan and fix for certain problems. When i tried to continue without scanning it wouldnt allow me to open my hdd. so i did the scan and fix and it allowed me to open my hdd, but now my music sounds all messed up and my pictures are messed up also. is there anything i can do to save all my data? I really hope to get this fixed soon because im djing a party this weekend!

 

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Same shit happened to me. Now when you say all your files are messed up, what do you mean? Because I know what to do if its giving you the same problems I was having.

 

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Like my music plays, but every second has like a gap, like it sounds like when u put s scratched cd in your car

 

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Aight well what I did was I copied my HDD to my PC's HDD, and then formatted the external and transferred everything back to the external. If you want to see if it solves the problem before you do that whole process, drag one song to your desktop from your external, delete if off your external and then drag it back to your external from your desktop, and see if it plays properly. If that fixes it then yeah do the entire process.

PS- Always safely remove your external devices. If it doesn't remove, shut the entire computer down before unplugging it. It's worth it.

 

I will deff try that, i ordered a new hdd, so when i get that i will do that, thanks for the advice bro

it wont let me delete anything off my hdd, and when i drag a file to my desktop and play it, it sounds the same way...and when i also do the scan to automatically fix errors, it only goes to a certain point and stops, when i scan for bad sectors, it says i must scan to automatically fix errors, im confused, and i deffinatly dont want to loose my long years of collecting music

 

So im having problems with my seagate 1TB external hard drive. My files and everything show up but when I play them they sound messed up. I downloaded a data recovery software but when even i recover the files onto a new hdd they are still sounding messed up. I dont know what else to do, does anyone have any suggestions?

 

You tried playing them with a different software? What about a different computer?

 

try to copy to another source for a backup just in case before tou corrupt it anymore.

 

What model seagate do you have?

 

its a seagate goflex 1tb hdd. yes i have tried transfering to my laptop and even a different hdd, but files are still playing messed up. i have not tried with a different comp yet but i will try.

 

depends how long youve had it because most of them last around 5 yrs theyre made to die out on you i had one that started ticking like a friqqin bomb lol

 

Ok couple of issues here.

You need to isolate your PC being the problem, try playing an mp3 on your external drive on another PC or upload to google play or w/e and see if it plays there.

If it plays right on another PC, then the prob is your current PC.
If it doesn't play right on another PC, still skips or w/e, then the prob is the hard drive. I'd recommend you back that shit up to some other drive and double check your serial number for warranty, you would be surprised how often this happens (not to mention how long the warranty is on these external drives, mines came with 5 years).

Report back and let me know, I'll help you.

 

over time the circuitry powering those enclosures wear out so i definitely agree with TMP on getting a cheap hard drive caddy (20 bucks on amazon or so) and just get the actual drive out of the enclosure and mount it on the caddy. Either way, the ticking sound is an early indication to mechanical failure.

 

If you like to check your HDD life and status, go check an application in the WD, the application is called S.M.A.R.T it will check the HDD and tell you if you need to do a backup because the HDD will fail or not

 

so i really am starting to think im screwed. i transfered some files onto a different hard drive and tried them on a different laptop, they either dont play because the filesize says 0 bytes or they play and sound messed up....any other suggestions? or any recommendations on a program i can use to recover and repair my files?

 

so i managed to get all my files off my external using a data recovery program called stellar phoenix...yea some files are still messed up showing a size of 0kb but its only a small hand full. thanks everyone for the help!

 

try to refresh your hdd, if not it may be corrupted