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. fdisk -l gives for the drive /dev/sdc1 2048 3906963455 1953480704 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT 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 SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 10086 494859396 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 10073 494859396 # 3 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 10072 494859396 # 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 10072 494859396 I noticed this in the attributes section of smartctl - Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 122 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 202 200 021 Pre-fail Always - 4891 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 464 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 10086 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 40 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 17 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 6187 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 102 000 Old_age Always - 31 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 31 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 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? Thanks! Mark