Which of my drives are failing?

Okay, a wired situation;

I've, last week, bought a 1TB My Passport 2.5" mobile drive. I've fired up my Asus laptop, which earlier was my main laptop, and started to move everything from my 1TB My Book 3.5" drive. However, since it is all the way full, I've selected folder of a total size of 563 GB. I've then closed the lid and saw a movie then went to sleep. When I woke up today it was asking for something like 'Adressed file not found' I could select skip or cancle. I've said skip and a few minutes later it reappeard. I've however skiped it each time and finally moving finished. Everything was normal, untill I've connected my new My Passport 1TB to my TV. I've saw that most of my movies are not playable. I've just get a simple message that file type is not supported, same as I do in Windows Media player. Even more wired part, some of the moves are actually changed, if I for example click on movie A, actually movie B starts Wired but true.

Now, What to do? Is there something wrong with my new drive?

I don't care about my loss, I mean my movies, I do have the orginal of each one. The reason I keep them on my HDD is because I can easily just connect my HDD to my TV and play them.

I would also mention that some of the movies are still playable, I've lost about 250-300.

I've also some iso files. But as said, I don't care unless my new drive isin't faulty. What do you think?

 

Sounds like your filesystem is corrupt. Have you done a scandisk?

 

You mean, on my new or old drive?

 

UPDATE: I've tried that Pita, Windows eat all 8GB of my RAM, screen goes black and I have to shut my laptop off in the hard way...

Anyone?

 

Dude you're stressing. It just sounds like your TV doesn't recognise the file type and it's whinging about how the file is broken when it's not really. Honestly it just sounds like a default complaint from a television that doesn't have the codecs to play the file. Loads of players etc. even on PC's will complain that the file is broken just because they don't have the right codec or because the codec can decode some but not all of the video.

My suggestion is to run a command prompt.
Then type in 'chkdsk /r <drive letter>' without the quotes obviously. It'll fix anything if there is an issue. I'm betting the drive is fine and it's just your tele complaining. What is the file type of the movie you are trying to play. Most tv's only do .avi or .mpg. If it's something stupid like a .mkv then you cant honestly expect your tv to know what the hell that is right?

Either way test your drive out. Copy tons of stuff back and forth and confirm that it all works on your computer.

 

Dude, I'm not a kid from yesterday. All the movies were fine before I moved them over to my new drive.

And, I know what my TV supports or not.

VLC and WMP gives me also the same error, so it is either something with my new drive, or something did badly go wrong under to moving process.

Nice PIC btw


I've checked it more then twice with all 3 of my laptops. So my TV is not the issue. End of the story.

 

I didn't say you were a 'kid'.

Maybe something went bad while copying. If you think you're so smart then why don't you work it out and tell us how you did it /minor sarcasms

Either way like I said, do some tests. Run an HD Tune error scan or try an automatic fix for bad sectors via the properties menu of the drive. You can do multiple things to see if it's broken or not. I'd say it's honestly fine.

You're saying it's a My Passport drive? As far as I know those have the lowest failure rate of most drives on sale these days... where did you buy it from? Some shady resident evil 'stranger' on ebay?

Main thing. Do some copies back and forth and see if the files come out ok. With storage like My Passport (not that I would ever buy one of those) I like Zero Filling the entire drive and removing all the useless software that comes with the drive. Then doing a slow format to NTFS or whatever before I even use external drives.

Oh and lastly.. did you just yank out the usb cable after you thought the files were done or do you actually use the 'Safely remove hardware' option in the taskbar..? First time my sister pulled her usb drive out without removing it safely first she ruined the entire thing. But that was a looooong time ago when external storage was much older, smaller and prone to breaking.

 

Yeah, I'm smart, I'm awsome, I know everything #sarcasm enabled

I've copied my ACI episodes from my laptop to my passport drive yesterday, just a bit over 30GB and everything is fine. I belive that something went wrong under the moving, but I just wonder if something have seen something like tihs before.

I didn't buy it from a stranger In fact, one of the largest companies here in Norway.

Yeah, as you said, I've also always format my drive before 1st time use

 

Largest company in Norway? Oh man you're screwed!! /sarcastic racist comment.

Mate you'd be fine. Just remember to safely remove the hardware in case your pc is still writing some sort of data and is taking a long time.

It's good to know that you format you drive too before use. The software that ships with the drives are for grandma's and children.

Hopefully it'll be fine in the future

 

I actually lol'ed