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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
The long delay you're experiencing now is likely due to your operating system (ie. Windows) and/or programs frequently accessing (especially during writes) the drive and hitting some bad sectors over and over.
If the drive was dead, it wouldn't read at all. So there's still time, but key is to limit data reads/writes during the recovery process before it dies completely, which it likely will very soon.
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It could also be a servo positioning error which is probably more terminal, since the drive cannot reliably determine where it's supposed to position the head to read track X. I had a WD drive fail like this a week after I bought it. It's in a RAID system so I didn't bother trying to fix it.