Senior drive passing to the other side?

[dennnic]

Hello folks,

This has been a known subject, I'm just looking for someone with more knowledge to confirm and give some advice.

Old Seagate 2tb - think its about 7 years old now.

SYMPTOMS - loading files takes longer, even images takes about 10 seconds sometimes, a few files can not be run (nor deleted for that matter), one time, windows7 got booted (got a spare ssd for OS) without loading the seagate drive - total commander went nuts, took about a minute to get the drive running, movies lose color for a few seconds now and then (only on linux)...

Here's a screenshot, hopefully (do you see it?)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qb23r6n0t6nne6z/seagate.jpg?dl=0


Can I expect anything more from an old pall??

 

[rgd1101]

replace it.

 

[USAFRet]

Drives die. Eventually, all of them.

 

[dennnic]

Which factors of that smart table do you actually look for when drive is about to fail? What are those sector counts?

 

[seagate_surfer]

You can download our free diagnostic software SeaTools to test the health of the drive. It will give you a pass/fail status.

 

[dennnic]

hard drive hardly loads today, takes about a minute or two in win7 and won't even show up in linux mint... Is there a way to access the drive while it still barely works to copy the data to another drive? would checkdisk help?
There is a 1tb of data over there, its gonna take one eternity to copy it

 

[USAFRet]

hard drive hardly loads today, takes about a minute or two in win7 and won't even show up in linux mint... Is there a way to access the drive while it still barely works to copy the data to another drive? would checkdisk help?
There is a 1tb of data over there, its gonna take one eternity to copy it

The more you mess with it (chkdsk), the closer it is to actually dying.
There is no magic sauce for this.

 

[dennnic]

Hello again,

Replaced the drive, all runs fine, as soon as I disconnect old seagate (bios takes a loong time if I don't). I can't seem to access it with anything.

It is still spinning tho, no weird noises or anything. Is there an alternative way to access the data? Anything DIY, because the data recovery services makes you think about how much do you really want it back...

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello again,

Replaced the drive, all runs fine, as soon as I disconnect old seagate (bios takes a loong time if I don't). I can't seem to access it with anything.

It is still spinning tho, no weird noises or anything. Is there an alternative way to access the data? Anything DIY, because the data recovery services makes you think about how much do you really want it back...

We do have a DIY recovery software you can try before resorting to In-Lab Recovery if you need to/decide to in the end. It's try-before-you-buy. There are also many 3rd party ones out there, you'd just have to see what others have had success with in similar circumstances.