Read Errors on USB Drive

[Stephen Partington]

There is an application called test disk that might be handy for data
recovery. But this looks like your drive is in bad shape.
On Dec 19, 2015 9:25 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

> 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
>
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