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Disclaimer: Most of what I say will probably irrelavant because I am getting two 1.5TB external hard drives for the holidays.
I have a 500g WD harddrive for backing up music, photos, other files. I recently began the process of updating the backup drive, to accommodate new and changed files. Once I get to about 50gigs remaining the drive locks up with the familiar phrase "cannot copy date due to cclic redundancy error" or some variation.
Is this HD shot? Over the the summer my bro-in-law accidentally knocked it over from an end table.
Do you guys think there is any hope of reformatting the drive to fix any bad sectors or am I just better off waiting until the new ones arrive?
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It may still be usable, but as cheap as drive space is these days, I tend to retire a drive that shows any signs of bad sectors. I certainly wouldn't trust it with any valuable data.
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