Hey guys I was hoping you guys might be able to help me. I have a WD My Book 1TB external hard drive about 4/5 years old. I've been having a couple problems with it, ran WDdiag a couple times and its failed the SMART tests(if that's correct terminology, I'm not sure) and said that there are numerous bad sectors in the drive. I tried writing zeroes to the drive, as I have all my data on it backed up onto some dvds. So what I'm looking for is it possible to repair this harddrive or should I go get a new one. It still connects to my computer and can be read, but its pretty slow. I read somewhere to try running HDD Regenerator and I did this using a boot dvd and it looked like it was going to take 600+ hours and had somewhere like 180,000 bad sectors detected with 33 'regenerated' and was stuck on this '34th' sector that it was regenerating so I terminated the process. This was after running about 15 hours. Is this drive gone or can it be fixed? If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks !

Welcome to the Forum. If your drive is under warranty RMA the drive back to WD otherwise recycle it and get a new one. You can't "repair" hard drives when they go bad "data recovery" is the next step however you are ahead of the game and have good backups which is great news for you.

It may be repairable but not by you.