Hard Drive turn RAW

[Aharon]

Hi,

Bought a WD 3TB Hard Drive a couple months ago.. been using it in an external docking station no problen.

Then a couple weeks ago, my PC didnt pick it up. I tried a number of things and eventually went into the PC Administrator settings only to find that the device needs to be initialised. I reinsitialised but as you'd expect the data is gone!

I tried a number of data recovery tools and could pick up about 50% of my data but without their file names which made it pretty useless.

The drive is working again but as you'd expect I am sh*t scared to put stuff back on it?

Do I RMA?

Thanks

 

[Rickster]

Do you safely disconnect before removing the drive or do you just pull it out?

 

[Aharon]

Do you safely disconnect before removing the drive or do you just pull it out?

Neither, it had been happily in the docking station for weeks... one day it just wasnt available anymore

 

[ITCynic]

Also had a Western Digital hard drive (1Tb internal) that used to lose its partition table on a regular table, RMA'ed the drive and suppliers can find nothing wrong with it. Even hard drive diagnostics don't find a problem.

I replaced the drive with a different brand and don't have issues with losing partitions anymore so it seems the Western Digital was the problem and not the machine it was installed in.

 

[Aharon]

Also had a Western Digital hard drive (1Tb internal) that used to lose its partition table on a regular table, RMA'ed the drive and suppliers can find nothing wrong with it. Even hard drive diagnostics don't find a problem.

I replaced the drive with a different brand and don't have issues with losing partitions anymore so it seems the Western Digital was the problem and not the machine it was installed in.

Interesting. Think I'm basically done with WD. Did they accept the RMA? Did u keep losing data?

 

[ITCynic]

Did not accept RMA as they could not find any fault with the drive, that why I replaced it with a different brand drive.

The Western Digital drive has been retired to my bottom drawer till I get the chance to see if it will behave under Linux, if not then I will dump it as being unreliable.

Just an anomaly so I cant really condemn the Western Digital brand because in the bigger scheme of things, millions are sold and in use worldwide without issues.