I ran a defrag and it stopped at 48% and the drive started making the clicking/ spinning noise again.

I'm pretty sure the drive is a goner. :(

Yes, I know drives are cheap, but I use this drive for product zip files, downloaded videos, Poser scene files, and Photoshop versions of my artwork.

I've started copying my data to my back up drive, but there are some files that won't copy: the drive just spins and if I wait long enough, I get an error saying Windows can't read from the drive. It's a little strange to see which files I'm losing: an episode of Doctor Who that I downloaded (but the other 12 episodes were fine), some older zip files of sales images, and a 3ds product zip file.

I'm able to copy other video files and large zip files just fine, so I'm not sure if the bad files were too fragmented or if they just happened to be on the drive's bad sectors.

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