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...
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cyclic redundancy
data loss
data recovery
disk management
error messages
exams
external drive
hard drive issues
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initialization
power failure
technical support
uninitializeddrive
wd my passport
The drive in my HTPC failed and I'm going to RMA it. Nothing unusual about that, but with this one I can't find a way to access it for data erasure prior to shipping, and that bothers me. The system partition doesn't contain anything too sensitive...that I remember, but it does have additional...
bios issues
data elimination
data recovery
data security
degaussing
disk management
disk utilities
diy methods
drive erasure
drive failure
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htpc
i/o error
magnet strength
partitioning
rma process
sensitive data
uninitializeddrive
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