Seagate Expansion Portable drive

[Cespenar]

Hi all,

This drive was purchased to do the win10 backups. But win10 backups are not as easy as win7.

I was advised to do something, somewhere, by someone. Didn't go that road. Not worried about backups ATMO.

 

Part number is PN:1D6AP6-500 1 TB

 

Windows see it, and recognizes it. But kept saying Backup drive was disconnected. (It is connected)

I could not do a second backup so wiped and formatted the drive.

Tried again. But could only do an image of C:\

But then the drive says 27.2 GB free of 31.9 GB (Bit small for a 1 TB drive ??????????)

I have to remove the drive under normal circumstances as it tries to boot repair the computer.

I did a drive check and it says drive has errors. I try to fix errors and it says drive has no errors.

 

I really think this drive needs to be hung on a gun range. ( I'm not allowed to use)

 

Should I bin the drive?

[Waco]

Use diskpart (command line) to wipe the partitions/volumes.

 

HD Tune has a disk error scan that's fairly good at catching dying disks as well (the speed map will be smooth with a good drive).

[AkakmanH]

Besides iDrive, I use MiniTool Partition Wizard.

Yes, you have to pay for them but they work - always.

MiniTool gives you the ability to boot from a USB so you

can backup the entire C drive without worrying about the system files.

MiniTool also gives you the ability to create and more partitions - the best I've seen.

 

https://www.idrive.com/

https://www.partitionwizard.com/

[scr4wl]

+1 for diskpart and HDTune, it very well could be disk issues.

 

I'm to lazy to install backup software on my windows machine, so i use backup and restore, as well as file history, both of which work perfectly fine. They're backing up to a samba share with no issues, pretty much since the win10 free upgrade came out.

 

It shouldnt be hard to setup either, just a couple of clicks.., Backup and restore is basically the exact same as it was in windows 7. Here is a guide to set up both:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/220986/how-to-use-all-of-windows-10%25E2%2580%2599s-backup-and-recovery-tools/amp/?espv=1

[Cespenar]

http://s650.photobucket.com/user/mikcannon/media/HDTune_Error_Scan_Seagate_Expansion-2.png.html

 

http://s650.photobucket.com/user/mikcannon/media/HDTune_Benchmark_Seagate_Expansion.png.html

 

 

Odd bunch of errors.m All as the end.

Edited April 3, 2017 by Cespenar

[Waco]

Yeah, it's dead.

[Cespenar]

Thanks Waco.

Thanks everybody else.