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On how to properly ask this type of question.' – Kevin Panko, Mokubai, random If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the, please. Most tools have trouble passing the SMART status of hard drives over USB. Your best bet for getting the health status from the drive over USB from a generic tool is smartctl from smartmontools. A version that works on Windows with a nice GUI is available.
How to Check USB Ports on PC or Mac This wikiHow teaches you to how to troubleshoot USB ports on a Windows or Mac computer. There are a number of reasons a USB port may stop working: it could be a problem with the driver, the hardware, or the USB device itself.
If this does not work, you will have to download and install the device specific management tool from the manufacturer. The management tool will have a health checker for the drive. Here is the site for. Here is the site for. You could also take out the drive from the external enclosure and hook it up to your PC directly using SATA or IDE and then read the status using standard tools like HDTune or Smartctl.
Smartctl support for USB is described in more detail. One option would be to open the enclosure and just mount it as an internal drive and use any program you would use regularly then. Now the program I use is Is SpinRite compatible with USB and Firewire devices?
The best answer to this is a firm 'maybe'. DOS device drivers are available for most USB and Firewire controllers. If such drivers are added to a DOS boot diskette so that your USB or Firewire drive is 'seen' by DOS, SpinRite will also be able to 'see' and operate with it. However, the performance of the drive through the DOS drivers and the serial (USB/Firewire) cable will likely be far lower than if the external drive were connected directly to a PC's motherboard controller. If you have the ability to temporarily relocate the IDE drive inside of the external enclosure to a PC— plugging it directly into the motherboard's controller — SpinRite will be able to operate at the drive's highest possible performance.
'Verify Disk' checks the consistency of the filesystem i.e. The correctness of the data on the disc. The S.M.A.R.T.
Status reflects the the probable health of the physical drive (e.g. Platters and drive heads). The S.M.A.R.T.
Status and a number of other drive states are collected by the drive controller chip (on the harddrive) and accessible to the OS when e.g. Connected via a SATA port. Its fairly common for external drives to not be able to report drive health. Ps: 'Verify Disk' detecting errors could be a indication of physical drive issues, but it's more likely a simply a filesystem error that could be fixed by a repair or a reformat & restore from another backup/main drive.
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