The HDD was working perfectly since I brought it., except for not properly ejecting(the drive seem to be used by OS even if I do not use it, this was only for the last one or two weeks). Yesterday, when I tried to copy some files, windows does not copy them, it simply shows the copy dialogue box with “Calculating” for the speed, items remaining etc.So I cancelled and tried again, same problem. I disconnected the drive because Saftly remove option fails, after two or three attempts, it shows only one partition(I have partitioned it to three partitions), that too cannot be accessed, accessing it will cause Explorer to hang. Connecting the drive seems to slow down my pc, so I connect it to a Linux distribution and checked. The OS recognizes the drive, but it cannot mount the partitions except one, that too cannot be accessed. After some attempts, I could format it and all my data inside it was lost, but it seem to be working fine now. I want to be sure whether it will fail in near future or not, because I use this drive to store some of my data which does not have any backup. I will give the results of WD Data LifeGaurd Diagnostics when I complete the test.
Here might be some more information Superuser.
Some background:-
Drive: WD Elements 1 TB portable(About 2 months old)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1(May use Linux Mint sometimes).
Screenshot for WD Data LifeGaurd Diagnostics test result:
