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/ 3 Years ago, thu, october 28, 2021, 2:26:49
I been using this before on back-up, but when I plugged it again, it goes like this, what should I do?
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BACK UP YOUR DATA NOW!!!!
Turn the machine off, go buy a USB HD if your don't have one and copy everything of value that is on the disk.
As a commenter tijybba said above, you can try formatting the drive and plugging and unplugging the drive from the motherboard (edit: I see now from the image it's connected via USB so that's probably a no-go), although it is really unlikely that this will fix the error. SMART Tests not succeeding usually means just what you would expect: the disk will be toast soon.
You might want to check which tests are failing by clicking the SMART Data button and scrolling through the list:
This answer has a good explanation of the tests and which ones are important.
Please be advised that I have never had a hard drive last for long when SMART tests began to fail. I recommend you replace with a new HD ASAP.
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