The-end Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) This error just randomly pops up for no reason while my external hdd is turned on it only started doing it today , i was watching south park (reading from the external drive) and then i get the windows media palyer error , the incorect file support one so i close it and noticed that my pc seem to have uninstalled all of the usb program driver's so i ahd to reinstalll modem etc and my external hdd ever since then i keep randomly getting this error I dont even have a folder on it called $Mft What is wrong and is this bad, how can i stop it displaying this error. Thanks for any help Edited February 20, 2006 by The-end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyzar Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 <!-- that error indicates a hard drive failure, i got it too when my drive died. i have no experiences with external drives though, it might be an error with the USB drivers/connection or something do external drives have S.M.A.R.T. capabilities? --> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riccbhard Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 <!-- that error indicates a hard drive failure, i got it too when my drive died.i have no experiences with external drives though, it might be an error with the USB drivers/connection or something do external drives have S.M.A.R.T. capabilities? --> Yes, some external drives do I believe. You may want to download a S.M.A.R.T utility and see if the drive supports it. Check snapfiles.com for software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-end Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 So your saying it's going to fail *copy's 60 gig of stuff to pc * what does the s.m.a.r.t do, fix error's? It's a toshiba high speed 320 gig If this bitch fails it must suck hard i only had since January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-end Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 So your saying it's going to fail *copy's 60 gig of stuff to pc * what does the s.m.a.r.t do, fix error's? It's a toshiba high speed 320 gig If this bitch fails it must suck hard i only had since January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-end Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) So your saying it's going to fail *copy's 60 gig of stuff to pc * what does the s.m.a.r.t do, fix error's? It's a toshiba high speed 320 gig If this bitch fails it must suck hard i only had since January EDIT:God damn sorry about the tripple post this site is going slow as hell and i keep getting a blank page so i refresh EDIT2:I rebooted the pc and put this in a diff usb slot and it working fine now but just incase it does, i backed up my 60 gig of stuff which took a good hour to copy Edited February 20, 2006 by The-end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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