Seagate Short DST - FAIL, safe to fix?

[MichaelGR]

My Seagate HDD takes way too long to boot and reaches 100% usage on most games, so I run a 'Short Drive Self Test' using SeaTools, however it fails to pass the test and prompts me to download SeaTools for DoS to repair problem sectors.

Is this safe to do, or do I risk losing any data or even make the HDD unusable?
Maybe this isn't even the source of my issues and I'm just wasting time with it?

These are my HDD's specs

Thanks in advance.

 

[getochkn]

If it says bad sectors, it's probably bad sectors. Critical files to boot are probably stored on the bad sectors, and why it takes so long.

With any manipulation of the hard drive, there is risk of losing data. In theory, it should try to remap the bad sectors, but worst case, it can't recover but mark them as bad. This will probably prevent your Windows from booting up. A Windows repair might fix the missing files or you might have to reinstall.

Regardless, if you can't boot from it and the tool says bad sectors, than that's probably the avenue to follow

 

[MichaelGR]

If it says bad sectors, it's probably bad sectors. Critical files to boot are probably stored on the bad sectors, and why it takes so long.

With any manipulation of the hard drive, there is risk of losing data. In theory, it should try to remap the bad sectors, but worst case, it can't recover but mark them as bad. This will probably prevent your Windows from booting up. A Windows repair might fix the missing files or you might have to reinstall.

Regardless, if you can't boot from it and the tool says bad sectors, than that's probably the avenue to follow

Any clue how long this usually takes to complete?

 

[getochkn]

Hours and hours and if it's stuck at a certain percentage, then the drive could be toasted.

 

[MichaelGR]

Hours and hours and if it's stuck at a certain percentage, then the drive could be toasted.

Hm, maybe it's not worth the risk doing this?

 

[getochkn]

Hours and hours and if it's stuck at a certain percentage, then the drive could be toasted.

Hm, maybe it's not worth the risk doing this?

Well if the drive doesn't boot, than what are you other options.