I have an portable drive wdbaar3200abk-00, bought a few years ago.
I keep getting a ‘cyclic redundancy check’. I have now reformatted the disk (took more than overnight) and used the disk, then got it again. Now it is doing a chkdsk (looks like nearly 24 hours). Is the disk now unusable or is it repairable?
Hi,
Are you running the chkdsk with the bad sector option selected. It sounds like a bad sector issue.
If you have data on the drive that you want to recover, try using a data recovery software since the drive still tries to show up on the computer.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I am running chkdsk g: /f/r. It ran for over 12 hours, indicating it had replaced 8 bad clusters in two files. It then sat on file 58278 of 58608 flashing away for several hours. I killed it to see if it would operate better by restarting. However, on the second pass it gave the same correction messages (why are the bad clusters still there?) and is sitting on the same message as before. Do I leave it to run or will it never get there?
I am alarmed that a disk from an apparently reliable company has failed so soon. Is this common? How does it happen?
