Hard drive sending failure messages, don't know what to do

Man, I would have thought that a good WD drive would last longer than this.... I think I got it at about the beginning of this year, or later.
 
It is under warranty! until 2018!! :eek: I actually bought this drive from a guy at a HAM radio fest, still in packaging and everything. but wow, I'm really glad you mentioned that voyager. I was wanting a 2 TB drive, but a free 1TB drive is what I can afford.
 
I hope I have everything backed up... my music is a first priority and I think I have it all, but I haven't backed up any programs. I'll just re-download them.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
You can't really back up programs anyway.
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Yeah. I hate to be a noob (I know I am, though :P ) but why can't you? I suppose it's because changes to the registry have occurred and if you were on a new HDD those changes wouldn't be there, rendering the program inoperable?
 
This is exactly why I never use Western Digital hard drives.
I don't really care about a warranty even if it's 10 years long because warranty won't get my data back once it's gone lol.

And yes you CAN backup all the programs also.You can backup every single byte of data if you want and transfer it to SSD and make it work EXACTLY like before without reinstalling anything.But the procedure is a little bit more complicated.I use Windows disk and Linux Ubuntu disk for this.
Maybe it's not simple,but at least I do not need to reinstall and reconfigure absolutely anything. :D
This is exactly what I did on all 4 computers I have.And the ONLY thing I needed to reinstall on other 3 computers (since on computer 1 this was originally made on) was a small famous application called DAEMON TOOLS. :D
And even after I reinstalled it,I did NOT had to reconfigure it AGAIN since all the settings have already been stored in the registry. ;)

But like I said...it is a little bit more complicated procedure and it requires some knowledge in order to make this work great on ANY computer.

I think I made a tutorial which contains about 200 pictures approximately and those pictures show EVERY SINGLE STEP of what you need to do.But it's not complicated once you understand what you are doing.It just happened to be approximately 200 pictures because I took a picture of ABSOLUTELY EVERY step lol instead of just writing a simple sentence which would replace multiple pictures lol.
I might make a post about it once and make a video of how to do this so that people can easily transfer ALL the data from their HDD or SSD on new HDD or SSD or on a completely different computer,laptop or netbook without the need of reinstalling absolutely anything EXCEPT the drivers of course since new computers have DIFFERENT hardware and for that reason requires drivers.But drivers do not take a long time to install anyway lol.




Cheers!
 
S.T.A.R.S. said:
This is exactly why I never use Western Digital hard drives.
I don't really care about a warranty even if it's 10 years long because warranty won't get my data back once it's gone lol.

And yes you CAN backup all the programs also.You can backup every single byte of data if you want and transfer it to SSD and make it work EXACTLY like before without reinstalling anything.But the procedure is a little bit more complicated.I use Windows disk and Linux Ubuntu disk for this.
Maybe it's not simple,but at least I do not need to reinstall and reconfigure absolutely anything. :D
This is exactly what I did on all 4 computers I have.And the ONLY thing I needed to reinstall on other 3 computers (since on computer 1 this was originally made on) was a small famous application called DAEMON TOOLS. :D
And even after I reinstalled it,I did NOT had to reconfigure it AGAIN since all the settings have already been stored in the registry. ;)

But like I said...it is a little bit more complicated procedure and it requires some knowledge in order to make this work great on ANY computer.

I think I made a tutorial which contains about 200 pictures approximately and those pictures show EVERY SINGLE STEP of what you need to do.But it's not complicated once you understand what you are doing.It just happened to be approximately 200 pictures because I took a picture of ABSOLUTELY EVERY step lol instead of just writing a simple sentence which would replace multiple pictures lol.
I might make a post about it once and make a video of how to do this so that people can easily transfer ALL the data from their HDD or SSD on new HDD or SSD or on a completely different computer,laptop or netbook without the need of reinstalling absolutely anything EXCEPT the drivers of course since new computers have DIFFERENT hardware and for that reason requires drivers.But drivers do not take a long time to install anyway lol.




Cheers!
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Yes, I've done this when I switched from a 500GB drive to this 1TB drive, and I'd do the same thing this time but since there's about 500 bad sectors on the drive I'd rather just reinstall and call it 'spring cleaning' ;)
 
It's been a while and the drive is still running... and chkdsk has found 0 bad sectors! What do you think that means? every other program insists that the drive is basically a dead man walking.
 
Chkdsk isn't a drive diagnostic. Run the Western Digital HDD diagnostic found on Hiren's Boot CD.
 
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