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Is there any hard drive repair software that can fix bad sectors?
Quote from Justin_bob on April 9, 2026, 3:20 amHey everyone. I have a 2TB Western Digital external drive that I use to store all my photography RAW files and my movie collection. It’s been working fine for about three years, but lately, it’s started acting... sluggish. Well, at first I didn’t think much of it, but yesterday, I tried to move a folder of wedding photos from 2021, and Windows gave me the "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)."
I tried a few more files, and now the drive is hanging. It doesn't make any clicking, it just feels like it's "stuttering" when it hits certain areas. I looked up relevant Reddit threads for software to repair the drive
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/15nygvq/software_to_diagnose_and_repair_hdds/
But I’m not really sure the methods described there will help my situation. Does anyone know of a reliable hard drive repair software that can scan the drive and fix these without wiping my files? I suspect bad sectors? Is there any hope?
Hey everyone. I have a 2TB Western Digital external drive that I use to store all my photography RAW files and my movie collection. It’s been working fine for about three years, but lately, it’s started acting... sluggish. Well, at first I didn’t think much of it, but yesterday, I tried to move a folder of wedding photos from 2021, and Windows gave me the "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)."
I tried a few more files, and now the drive is hanging. It doesn't make any clicking, it just feels like it's "stuttering" when it hits certain areas. I looked up relevant Reddit threads for software to repair the drive
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/15nygvq/software_to_diagnose_and_repair_hdds/
But I’m not really sure the methods described there will help my situation. Does anyone know of a reliable hard drive repair software that can scan the drive and fix these without wiping my files? I suspect bad sectors? Is there any hope?