Hi I have a 2tb WD Elements MyPassport USB2 external HDD which I've used for approx 1 year. Never had any problems with it transferring movies and music from my Windows 7 PC to it. For no reason its now become useless as its taking ridiculous amounts of time to transfer files to! I've tested a few other usb sticks and HDDs and they all run as fast as normal, so its definitely this HDD. Write speed is now 1.17MB/s. I'm transferring 1.1GB and its estimating 32 minutes to transfer it. WTF is going on? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
I've already tried to 'scan and fix issues' which took about 20 minutes and when I closed it the HDD became unreadable so I had to eject it and reconnect and its running just as slowly. Currently can access the files on there, modify and rename etc, but just takes an age to copy to.
I've already tried to 'scan and fix issues' which took about 20 minutes and when I closed it the HDD became unreadable so I had to eject it and reconnect and its running just as slowly. Currently can access the files on there, modify and rename etc, but just takes an age to copy to.
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