I had 5 large media files (roughly 10 GB a piece) that somehow became buggy/corrupted. The thumbnail previews wouldn't load, if accessed WMP crashes, and any processes related to the external HDD will slow down as well. The computer will hang during shut down until the external is unplugged (I figure it's still seeking, or something).
I backed up all of my other in-tact files to another external drive, and deleted the original files on the original external drive (so only the buggy files were remaining). I ran error-checking and here's what it got to before stalling:
I hit cancel, formatted the drive, and now when I run the error-checking tool, it says the drive does not have any file system errors, nor any bad sectors. Can anyone explain?
Did the buggy files cause the drive to act buggy, so once it was formatted the drive became "normal" again?
Or is the drive itself buggy and caused the files to become corrupt?
Just wondering if I can still rely on this drive, it's not even 3 months old yet
Edited by mingqi53 - 6/21/12 at 6:33pm
I backed up all of my other in-tact files to another external drive, and deleted the original files on the original external drive (so only the buggy files were remaining). I ran error-checking and here's what it got to before stalling:
I hit cancel, formatted the drive, and now when I run the error-checking tool, it says the drive does not have any file system errors, nor any bad sectors. Can anyone explain?
Did the buggy files cause the drive to act buggy, so once it was formatted the drive became "normal" again?
Or is the drive itself buggy and caused the files to become corrupt?
Just wondering if I can still rely on this drive, it's not even 3 months old yet
Edited by mingqi53 - 6/21/12 at 6:33pm
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I wouldn't trust that Seagate anymore. A brand new replacement might work okay, or it might do the same thing all over again. Keep the one that works better.
