So I've had this hard drive (WDC WD3200AAJS-00L7A0, it's SATA) for I'd say under a year and within two months I had my first problem with it.
I tried to cut a large file (not ridiculously big, under 20gb or so) from my 'C:' (main) drive to my 'E:' (new one) and it was all going fine until it started giving me ridiculously long estimated times, it was adding hours and hours to the time until eventually windows explorer stopped responding only to find that apon reboot my hard drive was missing from both the bios and windows.
I struggled with it for some time, got it recognised then it would drop out and need to be unplugged and plugged back in (I tried different sata cables as well) and then scanned for in device manager again. Eventually it got to the point where whatever I did, windows would not recognise the drive as having any allocated or free space and being corrupt so I tried many different hard drive recovery programs.
The first few couldn't read the drive but I found one that did and proceeded to recover everything to a borrowed external drive, when that was done I formatted the drive and put everything back on, it was like brand new and I had no problems whatsoever with it.
Now forward about 6 months to a few days ago and I tried to copy a 6gb file from my 'C:' to 'E:' and the exact same thing happened again and the nightmare has started again (baring in mind this isn't the first file I'd copied to the drive within the 6 months), tried the same solution with the recovery, formatting and putting the stuff back on and it's given me no luck but it hasn't got the stage where it's not recognised by windows again.
If I'm correct I seem to remember the drive came with 3 years warranty so if needed I could probably send the drive back, it's just a bit of a pain as I'd have to keep all my stuff on an external drive until I got a new one sent to me.
Sorry this is such a long post, thought you'd rather have as much detail as I can give then not enough and I'm willing to give more detail if needed. Please help me. <3
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