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Normally you log onto Seagate support and after entering the drive serial number you will be given the date the warranty runs out. With a 2 year warranty that will be 2 years after the date of manufacture.
Since you bought the drive in another country the only way to find out if you have a warranty or not is to call Seagate and ask them. You have nothing to lose.
You already know that the drive is failing, and have ordered a replacement. Anything you do that writes to this drive risks making more sectors unreadable, and that includes running CHKDSK repairs.
Unitl you have copied as many of your important files as possible from this drive you should keep its use to a minimum.
@ashramnavivi, please right-click on the Start button--> Windows PowerShell.
Run the following command and upload the "Output.txt" file created on the desktop.
Code:Get-WinEvent -ProviderName 'Disk'|Format-Table -AutoSize > "$env:homeDrive$env:homePath\Desktop\Output.txt"
When I got my new HDD, I performed full format.
When you have your new drive, plan ahead for the future - expect hardware to fail- it will, eventually. The question is- what preparations have you made for that?
Two basic ideas:
a. Again and again and again the routine use of disk imaging e.g. Macrium Reflect (free) is recommended here.
The very act of imaging will flag up failures of integrity of the used part of the disk- so if you image regularly you get an early indication of corruption.
b. Have a program monitor and report the state of your disks if found degraded against thresholds.
E.g. Crystal Diskinfo (free).
Early warning reduces the damage.
These two are quite different checks. Thus you risk losing less and have more time to act.
Will they list all disk events for my primary system drive, or for all drives, because I want it to output disk events for either both of my drives or just D: drive which is my data drive (failing HDD)
Do you recommend performing a full format on a 2TB drive?
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When it comes to this a. option, I will probably just use windows built in backup and restore (windows 7) option, and I will install either HD sentinel or crystaldiskinfo and have it always on my PC to monitor my drive's health & performance
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I ran that command, and here's the Output.txt file ProviderName: diskTimeCreated Id LevelDisplayName Message - Pastebin.com