External HDD Failure

>he fell for the HDD MEME

>>61911215
>He fell for the computer meme

>>61911145
Boot in linux and give it a shot.

Also, this is why we make backups.

>>61911342
I'll try that on my friend's computer. In the meantime, is there anything else I can try? Maybe something in safe mode or a command...

>>61911383
chkdsk /r you fucking noob. but get data off it first.

>>61911409
Already tried chkdsk and diskpart, it just gets stuck forever until the HDD stops trying to load the partition that is fucked and Windows gives the "a USB device could not be recognized" error. It opens the other 2 partitions just fine, but when it's trying to load the last one it hangs

>>61911342
>>61911383
Tried opening on Ubuntu, doesn't even detect it. Now it's opening on Windows but it just says the entire HDD is unallocated and I can't initialize it because of an I/O error

If you don't need your data (which you shouldn't, because you need to have backups), try offsetting the wrong partition by a few megabytes. I had a similar problem, and it turned out I couldn't use the first few megabytes of my drive. If you want to play it safe, make a backup of your other two partitions, then rebuild MBR (or whatever you need) (using e.g. GParted on Linux), and only thereafter do this trick. There is no guarantee this would work, but worth a try.