I have two 1TB USB drives I use for backup. Unfortunately, I just bought a new 1 TB internal drive, reinstalled my pc and rearranged all my data, and when I was copying it back from the USB drives, one of them generated a large amount of "pending write errors" (actually reported on the new drive, but that one is fine), and now half the data is gone and chkdsk hangs at stage 2. Using /i /c and such doesn't work either.
So far, every 3 or 4 months something like this happens (Windows doesn't like USB drives, it seems), but so far chkdsk was able to fix it, although it tends to take about a full day to do so. But this time, no joy. And things like this aren't supposed to be possible with a journaling filesystem in the first place!
So, does anyone knows of a better tool than chkdsk to fix it? I could use something like GetDataBack or Spinrite to extract as much as possible, but that will take literally days, and then I have to rearrange all of it, which will take a lot of time as well.
Any Linux tools that could do it from a live cd? Or something else that isn't too expensive?
So far, every 3 or 4 months something like this happens (Windows doesn't like USB drives, it seems), but so far chkdsk was able to fix it, although it tends to take about a full day to do so. But this time, no joy. And things like this aren't supposed to be possible with a journaling filesystem in the first place!
So, does anyone knows of a better tool than chkdsk to fix it? I could use something like GetDataBack or Spinrite to extract as much as possible, but that will take literally days, and then I have to rearrange all of it, which will take a lot of time as well.
Any Linux tools that could do it from a live cd? Or something else that isn't too expensive?