dilemma with failing Seagate HD

[Doomer]

1TB. HD Sentinel says Health is 21% and expected life is 56 days. Cryatal disk Info says caution - 96 reallocated sectors.

Seatools finds no problem with the drive. It's under warranty and I'd like to return it. Problems is, Seagate want a failure code from Seatools and they threaten to send the drive back and charge for the return shipping if it's found to not be defective.

Needless to say, I will never ever buy another Seagate drive.

 

[tweakboy]

Seagate used to be good many years ago. Maxtor bought seagate.

The worst drives are maxtor, they all die. and now seagate drives made in maxtor factory will also fail eventually. The best hard drives you can get is,, Samsung or WD. gl

 

[tweakboy]

There is nothing you can do to raise the health.. RMA time!

 

[Elixer]

What version of seatools you running, and what test ?
If you haven't done so already, backup now.

The "certified repaired" drive they will ship back, will either be DOA or only last a few more months, and you might have to go with back-2-back-2-back replacements...grumble.

 

[Doomer]

I'm running the latest version of Seatools.

Think you're right about the drive I'll receive. May be better to just lick my wounds and move on. Seagate sucks.

 

[bryanl]

Try HDDscan

 

[Ketchup]

Are you running the DOS or Windows version of Seatools?

 

[tweakboy]

Try HDD Regenerator ... it fixes corrupt sectors... hmmmmmm

 

[KeithP]

Run a multipass wipe on the drive until it fails? If it is as bad as you say, it shouldn't take long.

-KeithP

 

[BrightCandle]

If you do a complete error check on the entire drive. That should kick it into failing if its going to.

 

[fuzzymath10]

When you try copying your data, errors will indicate there is a problem. See what a chkdsk /r does; this might take the better part of a day.

FWIW, my 1.5TB Seagate replacement has lasted over five years so don't assume a refurb/recertified drive is going to suck.

 

[Doomer]

At present I'm running HDDScan on it. i have no idea how long it's gonna take because there's no progress indicator.

How do I do "A complete error check" on the drive????

 

[fuzzymath10]

I think running chkdsk with the /r flag should do it. I'm not sure how thorough it is, but you'll be able to tell if you're starting to suffer from corrupt data by the info it returns as it tests the data already on the drive plus the free space.

It also remaps out the bad sectors it finds, although the data from those sectors may need replacing. If the drive appears to be fine after, you might be OK although I recommend you don't put anything valuable on it immediately after letting it fill up with other data first.

 

[jjsbasmt]

HD Tune is my test of choice.