<p dir="ltr">There is an application called test disk that might be handy for data recovery. But this looks like your drive is in bad shape. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 19, 2015 9:25 AM, "Mark Phillips" <<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>I have a 2 TB WD USB drive that I formated with NTFS. I have a rather extensive movie/TV library on it for my plex media server, and I am getting read errors. I hope I haven't lost all of that data! It has been attached to one of my Netgear wireless access points, hence the need for NTFS. <br><br></div>fdisk -l gives for the drive<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">/dev/sdc1 2048 3906963455 1953480704 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT<br></span><br></div>I tried running smartctl on the device, (which is now plugged into a usb 3.0 port on my laptop) and got this error after a few tests<br><br>SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1<br>Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error<br># 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 10086 494859396<br># 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 10073 494859396<br># 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 10072 494859396<br># 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 10072 494859396<br><br></div>I noticed this in the attributes section of smartctl - <br>Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:<br>ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE<br> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 122<br> 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 202 200 021 Pre-fail Always - 4891<br> 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 464<br> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0<br> 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0<br> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 10086<br> 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0<br> 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0<br> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 40<br>192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 17<br>193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 6187<br>194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 102 000 Old_age Always - 31<br>196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 31<br>198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0<br>199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0<br>200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0<br><br></div>Any thoughts on how I can fix this drive, or do I need to get a new one? What is the best way to copy the contents of the drive with these errors to a new drive?<br><br></div>Thanks!<br><br></div>Mark<br></div>
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