Dammit, Hard Drive!!

Not a good day today. Started about 3 weeks ago when I heard scratching

and grinding noises while I was copying stuff into my hard drive. It was fine

receiving the files from my computer. Then about 2 week ago, I was a little

under the weather and decided to watch my shows. So I settled down and

turned on my laptop. When I navigated through the harddrive and clicked on

one of the folders, it hanged a bit and a box said the folder was inaccessible.

After about 5 days, it was an intermittent problem. Around 2 days ago at

night, it just wouldn't let me access the folders. I went online and did some

investigation of my own. Some tech-savvy people said "turn off the sleep

mode, safely disconnect the hard drive and shut down the computer." Then

everything should be fine. I restarted and hooked the hard drive. It didn't

work. I did some more research online some people suggested to getting

another harddrive enclosure. Even my friend said so. But I've encountered

something like this in the past with burned CDs. When I was saving data,

similar errors popped up. The only other option I could think of is salvage

as much of the hard drive. I'll run the CHKDSK.EXE so the computer can

verify the bad sectors and try to fix and remove the corrupted files if there

ever were to begin with. The only problem is it takes too long with the hard

drive at 2 Terabytes (TB) and at 1.03TB capacity. Some people online said

I might have to let it run for 3 to 4 days. One guy had a 1.5TB hard drive

at 1.3TB capacity. It took 4 days for CHKDSK.EXE to complete verifying. I

might have to just scrap that and call this one a dud. Another solution is

have a professional data recovery company salvage what's left in there for

a price. I have about 1TB worth of TV shows, movies, music and others. I

probably don't have to do this if CHKDSK.EXE can fix it. I should be really

pissed, but this happens. Checked my old hard drive and some files I have

yet to transfer are still intact. I'm somewhat relieved. But still...

I'm done.

(If you're wondering with the format of this post, it's because I made it into an acrostic)