I am having some serious problem with my external hard disk two month ago some virus attacked my hard disk and damaged some of data.
After happening this my hard disk was not working well. I wasn't able to copy my data. Mostly my data was damaged after that i had formated it with normal quick format method provided by windows 7.

Now problem is it is still not working good. Small data works good but when i start copying bunch of data together lets say about 10 GB. It works very slow and some time could not even copy so anyone can solve my problem please help me.

My hard disk details:- Seagate FreeAgent Go 9KW2AH-502 500GB

If you have formatted it then data obviously is of no importance so my advice is to RMA it if still in warranty, or else simply replace it.

If you have this much problems then realistically it is not reliable storage for any data.

Can you tell me what is RMA??

Ohk i get it i had tried to do tests with SeaTools when i was facing problems before formatting the HDD and all tests wasn't able to complete and fails to test tha HDD now i am going to do these tests again but what if i don't get any SeaTools test code??

when you are copying this 10GB, how many files are we talking? Just because it's 10GB of data doesn't mean it can't take a while if the file count is high, especially if you are copying using windows it has to crc check each file as it copies, which is why you will get really increased transfer times if the file count is high, even if the data amount is the same.

5 movies = 10 GB

Highly doubt you are dealing with a virus situation. More than likely, the external is failing. My guess is bad sectors.

Pretty sure you will not want to spend a couple hundred dollars for some movies, right?

RMA-ing the drive and downloading the movies again is probably the easiest thing to do.

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That shouldn't be a problem. Just use any error code or N/A, I have done this in the past without problems.

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Agree with these guys, just RMA it and make it Seagates problem!

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Thank you very much every one i got the test code and i am going for RMA.
Again Thank you very much