Unfortunately, once the external HDD gets to this point, there isnt much you can do to repair the drive yourself, apart from some temporary software fixes. As for now, you need to ensure that the data in the external hard drive is safe. Continuing to use it as normal will only worsen the problems, leading to permanent data loss at an inconvenient time. Solid state drives SSDs are usually more reliable and arent susceptible to the same physical degradation as HDDs. So consider switching to thos
