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1TB Seagate Barracuda making a creaking noise

Tommo99
By Tommo99
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Over the past few weeks I've noticed my Seagate hdd has been making a sort of creaking sound. I'm not too sure what this means. Does anybody have any ideas?


 


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Change it asap.

Its going to die soon.

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Change it asap.

Its going to die soon.

I'll contact Seagate and see what they can do, I don't have the money for a new drive right now

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I'll contact Seagate and see what they can do, I don't have the money for a new drive right now

If its still under warranty than return it. If not you will have to buy new.

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Make a backup as soon as you can. If you can't buy a new one, be aware you risk loosing all your data at any time. Maybe you can load the most important stuff across a few google drive accounts.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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Make a backup as soon as you can. If you can't buy a new one, be aware you risk loosing all your data at any time. Maybe you can load the most important stuff across a few google drive accounts.

I'll make a backup and return it to Seagate considering it is still under warranty. Can I just clone the drive onto my other 1TB HDD? I have over 500GB free on the second HDD and have only used 400GB on the Seagate HDD. Is it possible to clone a drive without losing any data on the drive I am cloning to?

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I'll make a backup and return it to Seagate considering it is still under warranty. Can I just clone the drive onto my other 1TB HDD? I have over 500GB free on the second HDD and have only used 400GB on the Seagate HDD. Is it possible to clone a drive without losing any data on the drive I am cloning to?

 

You can make an image file and store it on the other hard drive, or you can shrink the partition (if you manage, windows is like an octopus with drives) in your seagate, shrink the partition in the other drive, and clone the partition over and actually use it as if you had two drives like before. The first method won't allow you to access your files until you clone them to a hdd you formatted, the other will leave you with a drive with two different partitions.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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