I think I need a new hard drive. I went to turn on my computer yesterday, only to find that, though it powered on just fine, it wouldn't actually boot up. Several restarts, shutdowns, and a system restore later, I finally remembered that I have a backup hard drive and tried booting to that. Thankfully, it allowed it. Now, at first, I thought the main HDD had just probably popped loose, but nope. File Explorer reads that both of them are there and lets me access files on the one I can't boot to.
Today, I tried running a diagnostic test (the one you can get directly from Western Digital, since both my HDDs are of that brand) and it wouldn't even finish running the test because, and I quote the error message, 'too many bad sectors detected'. Right now I'm running a Windows disk check/repair, but I'm also bracing for the reality that I might have to do several hours of data transfer to my backup drive in case I need a new one. I even have a new one wishlisted on Amazon just in case.
I'm both annoyed and saddened, though. Annoyed because transferring things is going to be a nightmare and a half and sad because I don't want to possibly lose any of my several-years-worth of pictures and music that are on there.
Today, I tried running a diagnostic test (the one you can get directly from Western Digital, since both my HDDs are of that brand) and it wouldn't even finish running the test because, and I quote the error message, 'too many bad sectors detected'. Right now I'm running a Windows disk check/repair, but I'm also bracing for the reality that I might have to do several hours of data transfer to my backup drive in case I need a new one. I even have a new one wishlisted on Amazon just in case.
I'm both annoyed and saddened, though. Annoyed because transferring things is going to be a nightmare and a half and sad because I don't want to possibly lose any of my several-years-worth of pictures and music that are on there.
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