My faithful Easy Store drive died after five faithful years. Couldn’t repair it with Disc Utilities so am reformatting it and sadly saying good-bye to all my files that were backed up on it. About 2 TBs worth. But now I have to wonder — is it okay to use again? Or am I walking through a mine field wondering when the drive will fail again? Any advice welcome.
Hi @quest037,
We suggest you to test the drive health status. In order to understand the health of the drive, please install and WD Drive utility software and run the diagnostic test:
Title: How to install WD Drive Utilities( For both Windows and MAC)
Link: Error
If the drive passes the test, we recommend you to format the drive. Make sure that you have backed-up your data stored on the drive before going to format the drive because reformatting is data destructive process.
Else If the test result shows drive failure, I suspect that drive is faulty and suggest you to buy a new drive, in order to keep your data safe and secure.
