Timeline for Cannot copy anything onto WD Elements 1TB External USB HDD
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 6:45 | comment | added | MariusMatutiae | While I agree that the most likely source of the problem is a hardware failure, given the dearth of info I would like to cover my bases first: how many partitions do you have on the disk? Are there disk quotas? As for its age, it is unfortunately irrelevant: a disk life-cycle is determined by the number of write operations, not by its age. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 3:33 | answer | added | Blackbeagle | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 14, 2013 at 19:02 | answer | added | davidgo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 18:54 | history | edited | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2012 at 19:14 | comment | added | PeanutsMonkey | A good tool to use would be crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html. You won't even have to remove the external harddrive. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 19:11 | comment | added | PeanutsMonkey | Another option would be to remove the external harddrive and place in a PC so see whether you can copy back and forth. If the drive is S.M.A.R.T enabled, you could run the relevant tools against it to see whether it has any major issues. | |
| May 23, 2012 at 19:07 | comment | added | PeanutsMonkey | Have you attempted to scan the disk for errors and possibly bad sectors? What operating system are you attempting to copy from? | |
| May 23, 2012 at 19:05 | answer | added | EightBitTony | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 23, 2012 at 19:03 | history | asked | Aashish Vaghela | CC BY-SA 3.0 |