Seagate 8TB Drive Issues

Hello All

Windows 10 Pro 21H1 19043.1055
M.2 Boot drive
Windows Defender fully up to date/Malwarebytes 4.4.0 Free Fully up to date as well

Issue is:
Slow External Drive when writing or reading from it, Ran Part way with Disk Genius verify/bad sector scan, when i stopped it was only 15 percent done, and had about 3966 of Severe rated ones. Tried Full erase with Seagate tools--That failed immediately, Long Generic scan wasn't moving at all

Is this Drive really dead?

Crystal Disk info said it was ok lol, i was like how it is ok lol

Should i reconnect it, and run some more diagnostic on it over night, or attempt full format again, and then run Disk Genius again to see if it sees any more bad sectors after that

Ok I'll try that software again later, eariler when i ran Seagate software, it just not even moved on the Long Generic test, as the drive is in External usb Enclosure, i don't have room inside to place it in there or any sata power adapters left.

But i'll give it another shot, might take 19 hours to finish, but i can work on Gaming Laptop in morning if it's not done yet

Won this Drive from Seagate in a Twitter Contest, January 2019, not even sure if it's covered by any warranty

A HDD has a spinning disk inside. Rotating disks has a gyroscopic effect, so once connected, never, ever move it.

There are two types of disk issues: Logical (data corruption) and Hardware. Logical can be fixed by running check disk or even formatting the drive. Hardware issues can be fixed.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk X: /f (replace x with the drive letter)
It will say your disk is in use and if you want to un mount the drive = yes

Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

If it finds bad blocks, bad clusters or bad sectors it's time to replace the drive.

Megahertz said:

A HDD has a spinning disk inside. Rotating disks has a gyroscopic effect, so once connected, never, ever move it.

I don´t think so. If this was true, HDDs would never had been used in laptops, or as external USB disks.

Ok Chkdsk completed, Okb in bad sectors found, wonder if it was a false positive from Disk Genuis first program i ran, and once it's plugged in, i never ever move the drives ever

Code:

PS R:\> chkdsk /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.


Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) y
Volume dismounted.  All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.


Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  256 file records processed.
File verification completed.
 Phase duration (File record verification): 2.12 milliseconds.
  0 large file records processed.
 Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.21 milliseconds.
  0 bad file records processed.
 Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.20 milliseconds.


Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  280 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
 Phase duration (Index verification): 12.12 milliseconds.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
 Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 0.47 milliseconds.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
 Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 9.86 milliseconds.
  0 reparse records processed.
  0 reparse records processed.
 Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 2.86 milliseconds.


Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
 Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 3.56 milliseconds.
  12 data files processed.
 Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.99 milliseconds.


Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.


   7630867 MB total disk space.
     49588 KB in 9 files.
        76 KB in 14 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    304671 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
   7630521 MB available on disk.


      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
1953502207 total allocation units on disk.
1953413624 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 32.75 milliseconds (32 ms).