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my Seagate 1.5TB is failing

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tornadog

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Was watching a movie today and suddenly Windows 7 popped up a message saying my drive is failign and I need to back up my data. I used crystaldiskinfo and it showed red on the "reallocated sector count". Theres nothing really critical on the harddrive, so would a chkdsk help me get by for now.
 
You could try chkdsk. If no good then you might need a program like SPinRite but it's $80 and if you aren't worried, chkdsk might be enough.

I had a Seagate drive fail as well, a 1TB model. I replaced it twice through Seagate without issue. I refuse to use a Seagate drive anymore. After I build my new system I am moving to Hitachi for my large storage/backup drive.
 
Try ckdsk first, it worked for me and my ailing SSD. You have nothing to lose.

I'm kind of with cmdrdredd... I run Hitachi HDD's in my system. Never had a problem with them.
 
A drive with SMART data showing high number of reallocation events in short time is not to be trusted.

Even worse if you can see the number increment frequently. Less than a dozen or so and never changing is passable.

Best way to test the drive is do full formats, use a wipe tool that does a multi pass sector by sector overwrite, chkdsk /r, etc. This will cause the drive to read/write every sector which will give it opportunity to expose errors. Run CrystalDiskInfo again after a few passes and see if any of the reallocation numbers have changed. It's even possible for pending sectors to be cleared after being retested rather than going to reallocated.

If the number doesn't change after several hours of read/write "burn in" activity to the whole surface area of the disk, it's probably fine.

SMART data is straight from the horses mouth, from the HDD controller. If it's getting errors at that level, it's a media problem. Chkdsk, or any software for that matter, absolutely cannot fix physical media errors.
 
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Is it the 7200.11 model?

My Seagate 1.5TB just started making a loud clicking noise last night. Not constantly but it seems like it clicks when trying to access some of the sectors. Passes all the drive checks however. After some research it sounds like this is the first step towards drive failure.

The Seagate 7200.11 model (500gb platters) apparently has some horrible quality control issues. I read that estimates for drive failure rates are in the 20-30% range and I'm sure that number is just going to go up as the drive ages.
 
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Yep run the seagate utility to get the needed rma code then file for rma plus if you spend $10 they'll advance rma a new drive to you with the packaging and shipping label to send your bad drive back to them.
 
thats what I did. I got a mail saying the shipping of replacement has been delayed due to low inventory, so i will have a wait a while to get a replacement.
 
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