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External Seagate Hard Drive Suddenly has Weak Sectors, Errors
Hi everyone,
I'm concerned about the health of my Seagate 8TB Desktop drive. I have owned this drive since 03/16/2019 and have been regularly checking up on it through Hard Disk Sentinel - the status was always PERFECT, up until 06/20/2019, when something happened and the health went down to 45% and the lifespan was reduced to only a year remaining.
There was a bit of a hiccup in some file transferring I did between the 8TB Seagate and my internal C: drive. Some data was lost during the dragging and dropping and file explorer was acting peculiar. This was a few days before I saw the new Sentinel report, so I would estimate the occurrence to have been around 06/16/2019.
It says there are 40 bad sectors and 121 errors have occurred during the data transfer. I ran a surface test with disk repair, a test which ran 15 hours. I am attaching images of the results. 1 bad sector was found out of 10,000. I don't understand how that can explain the 45% health.
I could not figure out how to go about repairing the sector upon completion of the test. Was it supposed to repair itself? Why didn't it? What else can I do to repair my hard drive? Are there more tests?