External WD not being identified - Local Disk (h:)

[grege]

Hey Guys,
I have a external 1tb WDC WD10EAVS-32D7B1.... I have about 900 gig's worth of data on my external and just yesterday I can't seem to access anything. The Hard drive is identified, but in My Computer it is seen as Local Disk (h:) and I can not get access to it at all.

I Ran SMART HDD Scan and here are the results, I am getting error's on...
197 Current Pending Sector Count 200 200 00000000-0002 000
198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 200 00000000-0001 000

Please Advise! I do not want to re-format!!!! Is there something I can do myself? Or are there reasonably priced services available that can save my data?

Thanks,
Greg

Model: WDC WD10EAVS-32D7B1
Firmware: 01.01A01
Serial: WD-WCAU48387066
LBA: 1953525168

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.2
Report Date: 4/9/2010 2:40:51 PM


Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold

001 Raw Read Error Rate 200 200 00000000-0000 051

003 Spin Up Time 159 156 00000000-1B60 021

004 Start/Stop Count 100 100 00000000-02E4 000

005 Reallocation Sector Count 200 200 00000000-0000 140

007 Seek Error Rate 100 253 00000000-0000 000

009 PowerOn Hours Count 096 096 00000000-0C2A 000

010 Spin Retry Count 100 100 00000000-0000 000

011 Recalibration Retries 100 100 00000000-0000 000

012 Device Power Cycle Count 100 100 00000000-00A4 000

192 Emergency Retract Count 200 200 00000000-0012 000

193 Load/unload Cycle Count 200 200 00000000-02E3 000

194 HDA Temperature 115 100 35 C 000

196 Reallocation Event Count 200 200 00000000-0000 000

197 Current Pending Sector Count 200 200 00000000-0002 000

198 Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 200 00000000-0001 000

199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 200 200 00000000-0000 000

200 Write Error Rate 200 200 00000000-0000 000

[poehere]

Could be partition problem, or MBR, boot sector, to name a few. You need to properly regard this one. First off it is best to clone this drive. Stop running progams on it. After you can test all kinds of prorgam and what nots on your cloned drive to see if you can get the problem fixed there. Get a new HDD to store your Data on WD is not the most relayable one in the entire world.

[grege]

can I still clone it even if I can not access any of the data on it? My computer gets extremely slow when it is plugged in to the usb, and My computer is always Not responding.

[poehere]

Try attaching it directly to the MB and clone it from there. Yes it is possible that you clone this drive. You may use Rstudio to make a clone of this drive.