Citrus Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 I have a 1 terabyte 'Western Digital My Book Pro II' drive and I recently started getting delayed write fail messages in Windows. I installed the included diagnostics utilities and ran a test on my drive and one of the disks failed the SMART test. My questions are: Is there any way I can fix my drive or is it a lost cause? What is the best/safest way to backup what is on there? Should I just copy and paste all of files to a different drive or use a special program to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted April 4, 2009 Moderators Share Posted April 4, 2009 I'm not an expert in Hardware problems, but here's some info that may help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330174 http://www.bermangraphics.com/problems/del...ritefailure.htm I'm sure if any of the members have experience with this they'll chip in. You can use a very good freeware application for transferring/backing up files: Karens Replicator: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sureideas Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Completely shutdown? That is, shutdown and remove all power from all devices and power bricks for a 10 count and try again? How about plugging that into another USB port? Some discover some ports will not work, but report "OK". Free Online Game Play Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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