failing drive?

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Hi guys, using win 10, got 2 drives, an SSD I boot Windows off and keep some stuff on, then a 2tb mechanical drive I keep games on really, some photos etc, but nothing too major, I wont be too upset if it dies.

Anyway, last few times I have booted it says scanning E: drive for errors and to fix them...or something along those lines, takes a minute or two, then boots and seems to work as normal.

Reckon its a failing drive or something else?
 
bremen1874 said:
Download and run the manufacture's diagnostic (assuming they provide one).
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Its a Seagate Barracuda t2, and yes they have tools.

I dont know what I am really doing with their program but on a short scan it got as far as 10% and failed. Looks like its on its way out then. Ive backup up some photos on a usb pen the rest of the stuff on there is re-downloadable from steam etc
 
Fair enough thanks for the help.

I've backed up everything I care about already so I'll just run with it until it dies and get a new one. I have no idea how old it is, but I checked all 3 of the possible websites I would have got it from and it isnt listed so its at least 5 years.
 
Yes very true.

Do you know if you still have to mess around with a drive over 2TB? I remember when I get this one, I specifically went for a 2TB and no higher because you had to do some additional messing to get windows to recognise a drive over 2TB. Is that still a thing?

My PC is old, 6 years or so still running a Sandybrige i7, and motherboard from back then.

Any recommendations on drives? I use it for storage and keeping my steam library on, my primary SSD is only 250GB, so other than windows I pretty much keep everything on it, that being said, I dont use my PC for much other than playing games. I am currently using about 1TB, so really up to 2TB is probably enough.

I guess it depends on whether larger SSD's have come down in price and weighing that up against a larger cheaper mechanical.
 
hah so, after a day or so of issues, the drive then seemed to be fine until today, 2 (and a bit) months on from my original post, was updating some games it steam, one if which downloaded the update but once applying the update steam just said 0% updated and it kept trying to do it over and over, thought it was a bit odd.

Turned the PC off, turn it back on again (no because of that specifically just through normal use), anyway, PC turned on and the fixing errors on drive E: again on windows boot, this time i took ages, a good 5 minutes at least, but finally it booted.

I've gone an ordered a 1TB SSD today as I think I am now on borrowed time :)
 
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