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From: Lee Beck on 30 Nov 2007 10:13
I have a 500GB WD external drive that I have been using for about 6 months.
This morning I got an error message "The file or directory is corrupted and
unreadable" and Explorer wouldn't recognize the name of the HDD. I opened
the Disk Management utility and it said the device is "healthy" but did not
show the name and claimed that 100% of the space was unused. Actually only
about half is unused.

I ran the chkdsk /f utility and got the HDD back. Chkdsk reported no KB in
bad sectors, but did delete several index entries and a half dozen or so
orphaned files and recovered them. It also corrected errors in the MFT.
Some other messages and the last line “Windows has made corrections to the
file system.” Now everything appears to be going okay, but I'm wondering if
the errors that were corrected are indicative of a HDD beginning to go bad,
or if it is just a hiccup that has been corrected. Is there another test or
something else that will increase my confidence in the disk? I know that
part of the answer is “be sure to back up your data” and I'll take that under
advisement. Mainly, I'm wondering if I should worry more about my HDD than I
did before the errors and corrections.
From: neil on 30 Nov 2007 10:37
Strangely I had something similar with my 250Gb western digital drive. It
disappeared from explorer though and I had to recover all the folders using
winhex. It is back up and running now, you might want to try WD website for
"life guard diag" and check the drive with their utility.

best of luck
Neil
"Lee Beck" <LeeBeck(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 500GB WD external drive that I have been using for about 6 months.
> This morning I got an error message "The file or directory is corrupted
> and
> unreadable" and Explorer wouldn't recognize the name of the HDD. I opened
> the Disk Management utility and it said the device is "healthy" but did
> not
> show the name and claimed that 100% of the space was unused. Actually
> only
> about half is unused.
>
> I ran the chkdsk /f utility and got the HDD back. Chkdsk reported no KB
> in
> bad sectors, but did delete several index entries and a half dozen or so
> orphaned files and recovered them. It also corrected errors in the MFT.
> Some other messages and the last line "Windows has made corrections to the
> file system." Now everything appears to be going okay, but I'm wondering
> if
> the errors that were corrected are indicative of a HDD beginning to go
> bad,
> or if it is just a hiccup that has been corrected. Is there another test
> or
> something else that will increase my confidence in the disk? I know that
> part of the answer is "be sure to back up your data" and I'll take that
> under
> advisement. Mainly, I'm wondering if I should worry more about my HDD
> than I
> did before the errors and corrections.


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