Weird broken HDD

[winxp7freak]

Hey guys,

 

recently i bought new system components (Mainboard, SSD, Case, RAM, CPU), but kept my old Seagate Barracuda 3TB HDD and my GTX 970. Everything was running perfectly fine for about 4-5 days. After that my PC was somehow very slow and i noticed, that my HDD was nearly always running at 100% load. After 2 days I looked at the S.M.A.R.T. information of the HDD with CrystalDiskInfo, which told me, that my HDD's health wasn't in a good state. There were about 74 bad sectors, which were replaced with working ones. During another day this number increased by two sectors. Then I noticed something strange. The number of pending sectors and bad sectors decreased again to 74. After that I bought a new HDD to backup my data. But I wanted to try updating the firmware, as Seagate has released an update for my HDD. I downloaded the update from their website, copied the files onto a USB stick and booted of it, but couldn't run the update because in BIOS mode there is no support for USB keyboards. I tried booting in UEFI mode and it was working fine, until the moment it started the Linux live system provided by Seagate to update the firmware. At this point it was probably trying to show me the Linux command line, but I wasn't able to read anything, because it wasn't displaying correctly (it looked like the graphics drivers were not working). Now I am not able to read the S.M.A.R.T. info anymore (I tried to read it through the UEFI and through several programms), which is weird. I'm thinking of sending the HDD to Seagate, if there's still warranty. The HDD was only running for about 620 days (according to S.M.A.R.T. info accessed yesterday).

Has someone of you encountered this or a comparable problem?

Why can't I acces the S.M.A.R.T. info anymore?

Is there another way of updating the firmware?

Is it worth trying to repair my hard drive?

 

Thanks already for any answer!

 

P.S.:

My system components:

bequiet! Pure Power 9 500W PSU

Asus H170 Pro Gaming Motherboard

Intel Core i5 6600

Nvidia GTX 970

2x 4GB HyperX Fury DDR4  2133 MHz

(hopefully not) broken HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB std3000dm001 SATA3 6Gb/s Firmware version: CC26

new HDD: Toshiba HDD 3TB SATA3 6Gb/s

Main drive: 128GB Samsung MZVPV128 NVMe SSD

[Electronics Wizardy]

this is the horrible ST3000M001? I have 4 dead of 5.

 

Its probably almost dead. Nothing you can do.

[winxp7freak]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

this is the horrible ST3000M001? I have 4 dead of 5.

 

Its probably almost dead. Nothing you can do.

Well I heard about Seagate HDD's being bad and always breaking at some point, but the weirdest thing is, that the bad sectors count and pending sectors count went down. Is this actually possible?

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 minutes ago, winxp7freak said:

Well I heard about Seagate HDD's being bad and always breaking at some point, but the weirdest thing is, that the bad sectors count and pending sectors count went down. Is this actually possible?

Bad sectors can't go down, unless the drive thinks the sector is good again, which i don't think a drive can do. Pending can go down when its swapped with a new sector. 

 

Normally when the bad sectors shootup, you makesure your backups are good.