According to sea tools, my program-hdd is about to fail - how to replace it with the least stress to the system?

[Kendra_4]

I have a win 10 system with 1 SSD (with Windows and basically not much else) and two Seagate 2TB hybrid SHDDs (but from two different generations).

Yesterday, one of them (4 partitions) produced checksum errors in utorrent*.
I made several tests, which yielded:

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  ScanDisk (windows 10): No errors on all 4 partitions.
  chkdsk: No errors on all 4 partitions.
  SeaTool SMART test: passed.
  SeaTool Short Drive Self Test: Failed. Code: DF9EE6E7
  SeaTool Short/Long generic: Passed.
  SeaTool Fix All - Fast: Failed. Code: DF9EE6E7

Switching to SeaTool for DOS didnt change anything.
Code: DF9EE6E7 fails to produce google hits, so i have no idea what is going on.

The HDD itself is currently running smoothly, but i think i should go for an RMA nonetheless.

The question is now how to best adjust windows to the soon-to-be-missing HDD.
This HDD contains the partition for all installations i didnt want to use the OS-containing SSD. In total, 59 apps are affected, including office, dropbox folders, origin, steam, and so on.

Is there a way to mass-move all installed programs to the other hdd?
Can i try to copy/mirror the partitions and copy it later to the replacement hdd?
Will windows notice it, e.g. when partitions are not exactly the same size?
In this case, should i uninstall all 59 apps, rather than installing them onto the replacement hdd?

I have never done anything like this, though.

Any help is appreciated. How would you deal with this? Is there a 3rd party tool to fix the hdd?

 

[Colif]

Always nice when error isn't on their list: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/seatools/seatools-test-codes.html

You can use this to clone the drive for you: http://www.todo-backup.com/backup-resource/copy-and-clone-hard-drive.htm

I would get replacement drive before rma the other (though that gives you two drives later) unless you have free space on the other seagate

 

[Kendra_4]

Always nice when error isn't on their list: http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/seatools/seatools-test-codes.html

You can use this to clone the drive for you: http://www.todo-backup.com/backup-resource/copy-and-clone-hard-drive.htm

I would get replacement drive before rma the other (though that gives you two drives later) unless you have free space on the other seagate

Thank you for your answer. I already read about the possibility that seagate sends in a replacement hdd before they receive the broken one. Doesnt seem like this (pretty cool) service is available in Germany, though.

 

[Colif]

Do you see any benefit in an sshd over just a normal hdd? The ssd part is only a cache, unless you used same files over and over it wouldn't have much benefit. I would just buy a normal hdd and save some money. SSHD may have made sense as boot drive if you didn't have an SSD, now SSD can be as big as SSHD they seem to be an evolutionary side step.

Also, Seagate have been having a bad run with HDD in last few years (wish I had known that before getting one myself but so far so good).