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Hey my drive that I have my library on is a 2 tb external drive.

I went to the pc to copy a new movie to the drive and when I click to open it an error says drive corrupt.

So I look in event viewer and it has an error about mft table and says to run chkdsk.

After 16.92 hours and a report of no bad clusters or bad files, the drive is now working.

Beyond backing it up, is it really broken? It’s not that old maybe 3/4 years but it’s on all the time 24/7.

Is there anything that can cause this other than faulty hardware? Seems weird.

Edit: added event viwer

Sounds like chkdsk did make a repair. Most likely in the master table, not with a specific file, since it didn't report any bad ones.

However, perhaps it's time to replace it anyway. I just had a drive fail on my last week, and no luck with chkdsk fixing it. Fortunately I was able to remount it just long enough to see the folder structure, so I knew what I had to re-rip. This disk only had TV shows on it, so a snapped a picture of the folders for each series and now I'm ripping them all to a new hard drive.

Since my media PC is on 24/7, I expect the drives to not last a real long time. I can't say how old this particular one is, but 3-4 years is probably likely. Since I don't want to spend the money for a RAID5 array, I just live with needing to occasionally replace a drive and rerip the contents.

Cool I'll get a replacement then. Luckily I don't have to re rip anything because I back it up to a 5tb drive that stays not plugged in. I'm sure that is quite time consuming. I wish I had a bluray drive to rip blurays with. Thanks for the advice, the drive is working fine for the time being. fwiw

Yeah, I'd need more than 20 TB of backup space, and while hard drives aren't particularly expensive, there are other things I'd rather spend a few hundred on.