A common service we do at Mikey’s Hookup is performing Data Recovery on Customers “Backup” hard drive. If it was really the backup hard drive then Data Recovery wouldn’t be necessary because it’s your backup. Most people are using their Hard drive as external storage and not for backing up. I know you might not want to buy another hard drive, but having one for external storage and one for your actual Backup is the safe way to go and will save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars in the future. Both Dumbo and Williamsburg Brooklyn locations stock a wide variety of portable to desktop size drives.