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The only part I didn't understand was the special instructions regarding wiping the drive. Wouldn't a regular wipe program like the one that comes with Acronis' True Image or even Macrocrit's Partition Expert work?

Hard Disk Sentinel reports over 300 errors have occurred during data transfer along with 8 weak sectors on the disk's surface. That sounds like a HDD problem, not a data problem. The drive is a Seagate Hybrid 4TB. I believe this model was discontinued shortly after I purchased it. You linked me...

Hard Disk Sentinel reports over 300 errors have occurred during data transfer along with 8 weak sectors on the disk's surface. That sounds like a HDD problem, not a data problem. The drive is a Seagate Hybrid 4TB. I believe this model was discontinued shortly after I purchased it. You linked me...

This is moved over from a different thread on the advice of USAFRet. I have a HDD that is encountering errors so I am wanting to clone the OS and the accompanying System Partitions to a larger HDD (8TB). (The M: Partition will not be cloned along with C: D: and N: as it doesn't contain any...

My source drive is a Seagate Hybrid 4TB that wasn't formatted using GPT (that's why there's the extra 2 TB there at the end). :/ My target drive is a Seagate Exos 8TB. Any other info needed?

I've got a similar issue, except that my OS and Program Files are on separate Partitions, both of which I'm wanting to clone onto a larger HDD. Do I follow the same steps you've outlined above? Do I just use easybcd to do this, or do I need any other programs?

Is your Seagate 8TB drive 7200 RPMs? I had thought all three of the drives I mentioned were 7200 RPMs, but I just read the link from your other reply and saw that the Elements drive is only 5400 RPMs. That leaves the WD Black 12 TB drive external drive. I know Black drives are 7200 RPMs, but I...

ok, thanks for answering that. Normally this would have answered my question, but Amazon is having Prime Day, so there are some drives that are on sale that are within my price range that I might be able to use. I was wondering if any of thesse drives could be removed from their cases and be...

Then how in the hell are you supposed to RMA their drives since they expect you to run their damned program? omg, I wanted to return that drive long ago, but since it kept passing their stupid SeaTools I figured they would just send it back. I've moved all the data off it and reformatted it...

The 12TB is out of my price range, and from what I read only the 10TB and above use the 5 generations of HelioSeal technology. I don't know if that means there is no HelioSeal, or a just a lesser version of it for the 8TB of smaller drives. I'm wanting to stay around $200/drive.

Thanks for that link. It answers as many questions as it asks, though. The failures for the Exos drive I'm looking at are consistenly low (around 1% for every reported year). I can't find the Ironwolf drive anywhere, unless I've got the wrong model number. The 8TB model I've written down is...

I know anyone can get a bad drive. I suppose my question about the Exos versus Ironwolf was because in my searches on here I kept coming up with recommendations for the Ironwolf but I only found one for the Exos (in a non-NAS situation). I didn't know if there was a reason for this. I always...

I don't want to risk my data or my money on an experiment. It'd be great if I could do something like that, though, with a whole bank of drives backing up my back-ups like every good computer-user should do (but rarely does). :/

Over the years I've gone from 1TB to 2TB to 4TB HDD, etc. I now have stacks of the things. I'd like to get rid of the last of my 4TB HDDs and get some 8TB HDDs, but I'm not sure which to get. (I will not be using them in any sort of RAID configuration). From reading here, I see that it's ok to...