Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB

[jaja0714]

Ok, this drive died recently and I would like to move as much as possible before tossing it.

It spins up fine and hums nicely but Windows 10 just doesn't like it.

When I go into DOS (CMD as admin), I can see all my files and directory structures but I cannot copy or move anything to another disk. As you can tell from my xcopy attempt below 99.99% of my data was NOT moved.

Any ideas?

Code:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>n:

N:\>dir
Volume in drive N is 6.  Seagate1
Volume Serial Number is A404-D26B

Directory of N:\

12/23/2015  11:08 PM    <DIR>          Google Drive
06/03/2014  09:01 AM    <DIR>          Movies
06/03/2014  09:11 AM    <DIR>          Music Videos
10/04/2011  10:30 AM    <DIR>          TV Shows
02/14/2012  02:48 PM    <DIR>          xbmciso
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  215,306,993,664 bytes free

N:\>xcopy n: m: /s/e/r/c/h/k/o/x/y
File creation error - The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

Unable to create directory - M:\$RECYCLE.BIN
The device is not ready.
File creation error - The device is not ready.

Unable to create directory - M:\Movies
File creation error - The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

Unable to create directory - M:\Music Videos
N:System Volume Information\IndexerVolumeGuid
Access denied
N:System Volume Information\tracking.log
N:System Volume Information\Chkdsk\Chkdsk20130418153154.log
N:System Volume Information\Chkdsk\Chkdsk20130427133105.log
N:System Volume Information\Chkdsk\Chkdsk20130427133259.log
N:System Volume Information\Chkdsk\Chkdsk20150726011113.log
N:System Volume Information\EfaSIDat\SYMEFA.DB
Access denied
N:xbmciso\WTP1NNE1\type.Movies
N:xbmciso\WTP1NNE1\type.Music Videos
N:xbmciso\WTP1NNE1\type.TV Shows
N:xbmciso\WTP1NNE1\WTP1NNE1.iso
File creation error - Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

N:xbmciso\WTP1NNE1\xbmciso.log
File creation error - Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

8 File(s) copied

N:\>

[jermy]

I don't get it
your problem is with the source drive (n) or with the destination drive (m) ?

[jaja0714]

The source drive (n). The destination drive (m) is brand new.

[jermy]

But IIUC the error "Unable to create directory" is referring to the destination drive (m)

[jaja0714]

It is strange. Now, I can't do a directory of all the subfolders in (n). I had another drive which "went bad" too and I find it too coincidental that I never had a problem with my 8 drives for 3-4 years until, all of a sudden two drives disappeared when I upgraded to Windows 10.

[labtech]

Work with the drive outside the Win environment. Check SMART, check mechanics via software with something like MHDD, and so on.

[jaja0714]

Do you have more details on how I can work on these drives outside of the windows environment?

[fzabkar]

Do you have more details on how I can work on these drives outside of the windows environment?

Try mounting the drives from a Ubuntu Live CD.

SMART tools include CrystalDiskInfo (Windows) or smartmontools (Linux). Look for reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors.

[jaja0714]

I was able to see the entire directory structure of my "bad" Seagate 2TB HDD from UBUNTU! The "partitions" looks a bit weird though when compared to other HDDs on my system. It showed 4 partitions, 2 of which were both 2TB in size.

Only one of those 2TB partitions was accessible via ubuntu and, from there, I was able to "see" a listing of all files and directories but I was unable to move those files to another disk due to some sort of splice error. When I try to copy similarly sized files from 2 other HDDs, it works fine. So, something is wrong with this particular disks partition table or something?

I'm not sure what to do next actually...

[fzabkar]

Could we see the partitions in a disc editor, eg DMDE (freeware)?

http://dmde.com/

[jaja0714]

Hmmmm... do you mean, from Windows? I'm not sure that will work because Windows can't see this drive as well as ubuntu. When I google DMDE, I only see a windows download.

[fzabkar]

DMDE is a disc editor. A drive does not need to be mounted in order for DMDE to work with it. In fact it is often better that the OS does not mount it.

[jaja0714]

That makes sense but I'm not sure how to go about it then.

If I download the Windows version, how do I stop windows from mounting the drive before I run DMDE?

Should I run DMDE under ubuntu? If so, do I download that "linux" version or something else?

[fzabkar]

Just run DMDE under Windows and show us the Partitions window.

If you wish to prevent Windows from mounting the volumes, then click the MBR On/Off button. This will invalidate the 55 AA signature at the end of sector 0.

[jaja0714]

see attached

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[fzabkar]

That's LBA 9. We need to see LBA 0.

If you select Mode-> Hex/Text, you will probably see that LBA 9 is filled with "BAD ".

[jaja0714]

they all are actually

[jermy]

they all are actually

actually what ? the same ? (do you use a translator ?)

[jaja0714]

fzabkar, LBA:0 is EXACTLY the same as LBA:9 ... also in Hex mode, everysingle line (thousands and thousands of them all say "BAD BAD BAD BAD" at the end.

[fzabkar]

Can you connect the drive to a SATA port rather than a USB-SATA bridge?

Can you see the SMART data?