seagate barracuda 1tb problem

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my computer rebooted during the night and this morning it was sitting at the login screen BUT it was for xp on the second hard drive (i bought the seagate and installed xp and just made the second HD a storage drive)

rebooted and it still kept booting to the wrong drive. shutdown and disconnect the second drive and tried to boot. Right when the login screen should have came up the computer rebooted - and went into a cycle of rebooting.

hooked both drives up and computer still rebooted.

used only the second drive and got into windows then plugged in the barracuda. once it showed in in explorer tried to click it and explorer would hang.

downloaded diskchecker and it says the barracuda is unformatted.

HD Tune shows this screen:



So I'm stumped. This HD is only about a month or two old. Think it died already?

Should i just format and start over? There isn't much on it I wouldn't want to lose except some emails and music. Most everything else i can re-download.
 
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yea, d/l'ed the seagate diagnostic tool. It failed smart and short test.

*sigh* had just d/l'ed WIN 7 too and hadn't made the dvd yet
 
curious though - what part of the HD tune diag told you the drive was dead? (it obviously is - just wondering what part says it)
 
oh yea, this is the 7200.12 version


been doing some research and it seems the .11 version is known to suxor.
 
You could not pay me to take a 7200.11. Even the 7200.10's are junk long term, I'm finding. (They start dying fast and hard at 2 years.)
Looks like I might be adding 7200.12's to the "replace immediately" list.
 
Two years for the .10s? Looks like I'd better get some new drives soon, mine are about a year old.
 
The mechanics of disk failure is hardly an exact science, I think painting a broad brush with specific drive models as inherently bad can rule out drives that are generally fine.

However, in the case of the OP's drive, I would run SeaTools and see where it stands. Drives can certainly die within a few months, there's nothing anywhere that says drives can't fail at any time, including the first few days, weeks, or months from the purchase of the drive.
 
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The mechanics of disk failure is hardly an exact science, I think painting a broad brush with specific drive models as inherently bad can rule out drives that are generally fine.
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Unless you have enough data, which I do have, and then some. At about 2 years they start failing in two modes; motor no longer spins up, or bearing chatter. (Not to be confused with head crash.) I'm seeing it happening on drives independent all other factors.

However, in the case of the OP's drive, I would run SeaTools and see where it stands. Drives can certainly die within a few months, there's nothing anywhere that says drives can't fail at any time, including the first few days, weeks, or months from the purchase of the drive.
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SeaTools already ran. SeaTools already said it failed.
The persistent, multi-year, multi-model, and continuous epic failure of Seagate QA and QC is so thoroughly documented at this point, that I cannot see why anyone would be foolish enough to stand up and defend them. There is a trail of wreckage and unaddressed issues going back nearly two years which Seagate has flatly refused to acknowledge, save one particular flagship drive. And then promptly denied that the other firmware bugs existed and went unfixed.
 
Which firmware is that barracuda on? Sounds scary because I have two of the same drives with lots of data inside.
 
firmware cc34 as reported by seatools.

failed long test also. gave no details as to why.
 
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