Recent content by SacredVolt

:/ That's disappointing. I'll get the drive replaced and try to re-download my data then. Thanks for all the help.

How long does it usually take to run data recovery software? Cause it's been awhile and the estimated remaining time is stated to be "394.3 days"

Well I'm actually running data recovery software on my disk (has been going on for a few hours now) so I can't actually re-boot at the moment. Sorry for the late reply btw.

I'm not exactly sure how to check if it's enabled, could you walk me through it?

Both HD tune and Speedfan did not work for me, I'm going to try smartmontools. And also an update: I've found that surprisingly my warranty is still active so I can get the drive replaced. The warranty doesn't cover data recovery however so if someone could advise me on how to do that it'd be...

WD's drive utility software says that it's SMART status is passed.

The second complete scan has also failed.

I've connected it to my laptop directly, but there's no change, and I don't really have a different USB cable. Also I've run the complete scan with the utility software, and it states that it failed. I'm currently re-trying the complete scan.

Thank you for the quick response. I've downloaded the drive utility software, and ran the quick scan. It was stuck at 90% for about 5mins so I just aborted it and started the complete scan. If the scan is successful, what should happen? I don't really know what the scan does.

So my WD 'My Passport' (1Tb) died on me about 4 days due to a 'data cyclic redundancy error' or something along those lines. So I ran chkdsk, and just a few hours ago... My power tripped(of course). Now, I can't even detect the drive to run chkdsk on it as it says "cannot open volume for direct...

Ahh that seems to work. Thanks, again.

I've got a new problem now. My computer keeps trying to upgrade to windows 8.1, each time it fails and it has to restore the previous version of windows. How do I get my computer to not upgrade to windows 8.1?

Okay so I did that and it said "restoring previous version of windows and my computer is working fine again. Thanks.

I was prompted to install windows 8.1, and I downloaded and installed it. After that, it told me to restart my computer, and after that upon startup the bsod appears for less than a second and my computer dies. The error is "driver violation" with no code. I realise I'm supposed to attatch...