One specific external HDD cannot copy to internal HDD
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So I have a few external drives that I use for copying games from one computer to another to save on data usage.
My 1TB drive has become almost full so I decided to pop out this one drive from a laptop that had its power button fail (the specs on that machine aren't worth the hassle of fixing it)
A 320GB toshiba drive, popped it in and formatted it to exfat just like my last drive.
I decided to write Final Fantasy XIV to it from my laptop and that was done.
1 month later and now I need to write final fantasy XIV over to my desktop again.
I began the copying process from the external HDD to the internal HDD and once it got to writing the 1GB .dat files the game had it just choked and decided to stop being responsive altogether until i stopped the process and waited a minute for it to recover. So I decided to try writing a 1GB file by copying from the internal HDD over to the external, no issues.
Then I tried copying that same file back except in a different folder on the internal drive, semi-died again.
Then I decided to change the drive out for the 1TB drive (same enclosure): Copying both ways worked fine.
Then I tried formatting it (both exfat and NTFS) and trying it again, same issues.
Then I tried checkdisk, instantly completed(?) and no errors were found.
Then I tried to copy Final Fantasy XIV over again and run it straight from the external drive, no issues.
I'm now stumped as to what to do now and I have no clue whatsoever as to why the drive isn't willing to copy to the internal drive but it is willing to be written to.
Is the drive fried or something?
Check out the HDDs smart values.
If you've reformatted the drive and are still having issues, could be a failing drive.
Run HDTune, have a ganders for un-writeable blocks. [URL="http://www.hdtune.com/"][Link][/URL]
If that all checks out, could be windows just taking a dump. Try out [URL="http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P29/Unstoppable%20Copier"]Unstoppable Copy[/URL].
[QUOTE=shadowboy303;50188784]Check out the HDDs smart values.
If you've reformatted the drive and are still having issues, could be a failing drive.
Run HDTune, have a ganders for un-writeable blocks. [URL="http://www.hdtune.com/"][Link][/URL]
If that all checks out, could be windows just taking a dump. Try out [URL="http://www.roadkil.net/program.php/P29/Unstoppable%20Copier"]Unstoppable Copy[/URL].[/QUOTE]
Already checked smart, showed literally nothing.
HDTune checks out.
Unstoppable Copier also got stopped by this drive.
Another thing to note actually is that when it's frozen the HDD indicator does not light up on the device itself once this occurs, nor does the drive ever go to sleep.
[editline]23rd April 2016[/editline]
Found some things relating to the issue in event viewer:
[quote]An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR5 during a paging operation.[/quote]
[quote]The IO operation at logical block address 0x6e3ecb8 for Disk 1 (PDO name: \Device\0000006a) was retried.[/quote]
[quote]Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort4, was issued.[/quote]
I'm seriously thinking this harddrive is boned.
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