Help with new Portable External Harddrive

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Good day

i am new to the idea of posting and i'm hoping someone could help me. So to get the full story straight, my laptop recently malfunctioned due to Motherboard issues, I then stripped the laptop of a few components like the Hard-drive, i then bought a case for the harddrive to turn it into a portable hard drive, its been working fine with movies, music and what not but recently ive noticed that programs somehow become corrupted, i run integrity tests on the items and found that the CRC hashes would not hold up. somehow my program data gets corrupted when placed on the external. does anyone know what the cause of this may be? Very thankful to anyone who may be able to help
 
Run a S.M.A.R.T. test on the hard drive. I suspect you have bad sectors which means chuck it in the bin.
 
What interface: eSATA or USB? If it is USB, for SMART reading and testing move your hard drive to the PC with ATA/SATA interface.
Are you aware about "Safely Remove Hardware"?
 
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hi again. what exactly is a smart test on a harddrive
 
ive run numerous tests, repartitioned the drive, formatted into numerous formats. also it has passed all the tests based on the SMART tests. this has left me very confused. anyone with any idea?
 
Yip. SMART report (screen shot) from any program and surface scan result from MHDD (DOS) or Victoria (Windows).

If you have tried to write over entire drive surface, some defects can be already hidden.
 
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this is the output i got, let me know if i did it corretly
 
HDD appears to be in good condition. There are signs of something went wrong, but I am not familiar with Samsung specific interpretation:
0B Recalibration retries (raw value)
BB Reported uncorrectable errors (raw value)
BF G-sensor Error Rate (raw value)

BB parameter (if I understand it correctly) indicate how many locations were reported to the user as unreadable. Bad sectors should never happen. This is a sign that your hard drive could be a reason for laptop malfunctioning. May I have your laptop, please? :)

These bad sectors could be developing due to mechanical shocks and had been repaired (or relocated) during writing over entire surface.
Check your hard drive surface scan in Victoria to see if you can continue to use it.
 
sajunky said:
HDD appears to be in good condition. There are signs of something went wrong, but I am not familiar with Samsung specific interpretation:
0B Recalibration retries (raw value)
BB Reported uncorrectable errors (raw value)
BF G-sensor Error Rate (raw value)

BB parameter (if I understand it correctly) indicate how many locations were reported to the user as unreadable. Bad sectors should never happen. This is a sign that your hard drive could be a reason for laptop malfunctioning. May I have your laptop, please? :)

These bad sectors could be developing due to mechanical shocks and had been repaired (or relocated) during writing over entire surface.
Check your hard drive surface scan in Victoria to see if you can continue to use it.
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hmmm interesting, i should try turn on the pc tonight, do u know where i can get victoria?
 
im just wondering now, is it possible that it may be my case that is causing the issue?
 
Victoria 4.46b is on Hiren's boot CD. if you don't want to download full CD, google for this version, it is freeware. Run default scan. Watch if you have delays >150ms.

Yes, with bad sectors, it could cause this and even more, like OS crashing. How many times we should tell it?
 
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this is embarrassing, i tested the harddrive on another docking station and found that it is working fine, all data was not corrupted as i assumed but the problem was reading bk from the harddrive, it must be the case for some reason. myt need a new one
 
I don't know it is embarassing or not, you didn't test hard drive as adviced, so you don't know what might happen soon. And then if it happen again it will be embarassing...
I don't say it will happen again, thinking it was exposed to mechanical shocks in the past, it was a reason and now is repaired, but better to do necessary checks than say sorry.

Re laptop, I want your laptop. :)
 
Well, I don't know details of your laptop, but certainly I will look at that. At this stage you can sell it only for parts, as you claim that motherboard is faulty. I am going to do is give you a right offer for not working laptop and only hope that is not a case, as my experience indicate it. :)

More shed to light would give if you did test hard drive as advised.
 
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