SacredVolt

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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 access". So I googled it, was told to go to computer management, disk management, and look for it there. Well I found it, and it states the drive is uninitialized, so I tried to initialize it,and it fails due to an I/O error this time.

I'm just really lost and kinda panicy at this point. The data on it wasn't that important, but it will take forever(probably closer to months) to re-obtain everything I had and time is not something I have at this point in time (exams). So please, could someone help me get my data back?
 

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Disk check failed, you have cyclic redundancy check errors, the WD utility check failed, you have a 400 day estimate for scanning the disk. This all points to complete disk failure with many irrecoverable errors which explains the 400 day estimate - it is failing to access the drive at sector level and is making repeated tries on each and every sector on the drive. If, as you remarked in your first post, time is not something you have plenty of then I would not spend any more of it on this drive - I am convinced it is beyond all hope.
:/ That's disappointing. I'll get the drive replaced and try to re-download my data then. Thanks for all the help.
 

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