I highly recommend Speccy for providing information your drive’s status.

So I’m glad I didn’t give up when Western Digital told me to. Luckily, Acronis was able to clone the disk and I’m now all set. So the Western Digital team recommended I pull the drive out of the existing system, put it in as a secondary drive in another system, and try the repair utility again.Īfter that, Western Digital pretty much gave up. I was trying to repair the C drive which held the operating system, on the system I was working with. Unfortunately for me, the sectors could not be repaired. It’s recommended that you backup the drive before proceeding with the Repair function.” That of course is very true. Its exact error is “Data stored in the bad sectors will be lost. When you say you do want to repair the bad sectors, it will warn you that you could lose data. In this case a 1TB drive took about 2 1/2 hours to process. If the LifeGuard Diagnostics utility finds problems, it will ask you if you want to try to repair them. Here I’m choosing the advanced test on my main C drive (drive 1). The utility will show you all known drives and ask which you want to work on. They have both a quick and an intensive test you can run. You can also go to Western Digital manually and search from there if you wish.

This software is wholly free from the Western Digital site. Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics is a key part of this process. They have developed a suite of free programs to help users of their hard drives repair bad sectors and perform other maintenance. Western Digital has been creating, repairing, and improving hard drives for a very long time. Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for Hard Drive Repair

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