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RIKIL · Joined: 11 Aug 2010 Posts: 1

I have a Seagate 1TB SATA HD that is in an enclosure and I use this as an external drive (connected via USB) to my computer (running Windows XP).

This is a new drive and I have been writing data to it for about a week now. Last night I was ripping some of my music CDs to this drive, I got a write failure. After disconnecting the drive and then rebooting, I was still having the same trouble. I ran checkdisk and it did find an issue but is having trouble correcting it, stating there is not enough space on the drive to correct the issue. That isn't the case though, I think I might have ~150GB of data on there at this point but all the files are large, mostly my music files which are 10-15 MB each and several movies I have which are 250-1000 MB each.

The files are on the drive, not deleted, and windows can see the files when I plug in the drive, it just can't copy anything or repair the problem. I am not an expert but, from what I know about drives, I think the table that tells the OS where on the platters the files are located is messed up (is this the MFT?).

Anyway, looking for advice on what to do next to try and get my data.

Thanks.