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GoGeTa006:
So, for some of you that have been there in my times of needs. . .I thank you

I have officially resigned all hope and accept the fact that I lost around 500 - 600 GB worth of anime in my external hard drive due to some cyclic redundancy bullshit. . .

ANYWAYS!
the hard drive seems fine, no weird noises. . .I ran the WD check up utility as suggested and it seems fine.


The question at hand now. . .
given the recent issue, I was wondering "maybe if the hard drive was partitioned, only half (or X partition) fails and the other partitions are safe. . ."

is this true?
would that mean that it is recommended to have large hard drives into smaller partitions?
other than physical failure, internal failure (total loss) can be avoided by partitioning hard drive?

those are my questions, since now I have a 1 TB of unallocated space. . .which I am still very skeptical to use since it failed me once. . .although Im assuming that its because it was an external hard drive and I think the USB interface can at some point be the problem. . .

*EDIT*

clarifying question:

1)IF A NON-PHYSICAL FAILURE happens, something like that cyclic redundancy or some other "bad data" thing. . . will it fuck up ONLY the partition that its on?

if the answer is yes then it is obvious that partitioning is indeed an effective way to "save" data. . .
right?

kitamesume:
partitioning doesn't necessarily save you from file loss, well it could but highly unlikely. well because once a drive is failing, the contents is doomed to get affected.

ps: before you do anything, can you try putting that HDD back in it's external enclosure and run it again? oh and do try another USB cable.

Lupin:

--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on January 26, 2012, 07:40:23 AM ---the hard drive seems fine, no weird noises. . .I ran the WD check up utility as suggested and it seems fine.

--- End quote ---
Check the SMART attributes of the drive. Drives can pass the test as long as the attributes are in the "safe" range. But any decrease (or increase, depending on the attribute) in the critical attributes is an early sign of impending failure.

GoGeTa006:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on January 26, 2012, 08:09:46 AM ---partitioning doesn't necessarily save you from file loss, well it could but highly unlikely. well because once a drive is failing, the contents is doomed to get affected.

ps: before you do anything, can you try putting that HDD back in it's external enclosure and run it again? oh and do try another USB cable.

--- End quote ---

I already "quick-formated" the disc on the disc manager, its now 1TB hard drive (Im thinking of partitioning it into 2 500 GB ones) I didnt try it back on the external enclosure, TBH it doesnt make sense that that would work. . .I've never had problems with internal hard drives, usually failure occurs in external hard drives due to the USB interface fking up at some moment in reading/writing. . .

also that new hard drive ib ought (750 GB) Im thinking in partitioning it around half also. . .I am asking if this is recommended tho

Stsin:
How many times has this happened? and on different externals?

Yea, if the CRC errors are caused from disconnecting while writing, it would most likely only effect that partition.  But honestly, I'd fix it so that would never happen again.  If can't, may want to try setting the the 'Removal Policy' of that drive to 'Safe Removal' instead of 'Better Performance'.  Also prevent as much writing to it as possible, like turn off indexing and scheduled tasks such as defragmenting.

Here's a thread on tools to recover such data loss if it happens again:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f16/drive-is-not-accessible-data-error-cyclic-redundancy-check-605287.html#post3536338

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