Ext 1TB Seagate has 38 bad sectors, is it dying?

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I use a 1TB Seagate external drive for storing films.
After splitting some films to fit onto DVD by zero compression rar, a couple of rars have become unreadable.
The drive is never moved or knocked around.
Can these sectors be fixed or will the drive soon fail, or should I buy a crystal ball, lol.
Oh, I know Seagates are renowned for faults but my motherboard wont boot-up with any other drive plugged in else as it resets the BIOS. Any firmware Gigabyte GA_P35_DQ6 (Socket 775).

I had another Seagate 1TB which did die, it clicked violently when near any electrical device including an identical drive. I backed up all its data & took back stop <1yr but was charged £10 for testing as they found no fault. 2 months later the drive died & I lost all its data after 1yr :(

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Max3 said:
Generally bad sectors will just increase over time - RMA whilst you can!
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Oww, not another one.
Im copying the data from it onto another darn Seagate atm.

No chance of fixing this then?
Format or different cluster size or slow scandisk.

Could do with putting another drive inside the Seagate caddy, I could trust it then lol.
 
Oh no, I just checked another 1.5TB Seagate & that had bad sectors too.

I recently bought a 2TB & thats ok atm.

Looks like im RMA'ing 2 drives. Well the replacements should last a few months, lol.
 
Could the bad sectors be because the data on the drives never changes over months, or because they're USB & spinning up every time they're accessed?

Its weird that 3 of 4 ext Seagate drives are dying after a few months, the 4th good drive being 3 weeks old.
 
You can do a chkdsk /f and it'll mark out these bad sectors. If I recall correctly there's only a set amount of sectors that it can allocate as bad.

To be on the safe side just backup asap and rma!
 
Yer im running Seatools now.
The 1TB failed the short tes, HDTune also reports 38 bad sectors.
The 1.5TB passes the short test, HDTune also reports 4 bad sectors.

Backing up as much as I can on the good 2TB & looking for the Seagate RAM procedure now.
 
RMA them and while you at it RMA your clearly broken motherboard, it should not reset the bios with other drives attached that is just plain odd.
 
The motherboard is over 3 years old, yes running an old 2.4 quad @ 3.8 for over 3 years.
My friend has exactly the same motherboard & it resets the BIOS if any external drive other than Seagate is plugged into it too.

I just bought an internal Hitachi 1TB which will enable me to RMA both drives at the same time.
When I get replacement drives i'll immediately sell them.
 
The 1.5TB with 4 bad sectors is running at 60c all the time, even when not being used.
Im reading & writing as much data as possible before it dies.
The other drives run 25c idle, 45c load.

Anyway, here is a pic of the old 1TB which eventually died after violently clicking whenever near anything electrical. I took it apart before I knew about the 2yr on sight warranty.
Looks like the head has crashed into the platter, it even makes a grinding noise when spinning.

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