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I have a 7 months old 2 TB Seagate Barracuda drive, and about 2 days ago it stopped while watching a movie, my solution was to open a folder on the drive and the movie continued to play. I used Google to look up the issue, one particular information was that it might have been the problem with the movie codec, so I ignored it. Yesterday while watching something else it happened again. This time I backed up the really most important stuff like 15 GB to my 4 years old main drive which is a WD Green Drive, which is not only still working but it's also my OS drive. So while making this backup I saw that the copy-paste stopped for like 1-1 and 1/2 minutes and through resource monitor I noticed that no data was getting moved, but then it continued the backup. It did it like 4 or 5 times. It also has a clicking noise but like it spins up, click then slows down, and again for 2-5times. The drive seems to work but making those pause times. My opinion would be bad data sectors/read errors.

Tl;dr:

-2TB Seagate Barracuda.

-Stopped while playing movie, had to open a folder on the drive to make it continue.

-While making a small backup, the copy/paste paused for 4-5 times, but it finished.

-Resource monitor showed no data transfer during those pause times, so it wasn't OS lag.

-Clicking noise after hearing it spin up, 4-5 times in like ~1h.

I'm afraid I'll loose all my data from it, considering that it's a 2TB drive with only 330GB free I have no where to back it up, nor money to buy a new one. Should I unplug the drive while searching for a solution? Where to back it up? Is there a chance that after I send it in for repair I'll have all my personal data secure and still available for me?

Any ways on fixing this on my own? Is SeaTools for DOS dangerous for data loss?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 1xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400) 1xBenq IPS 32" 4k; Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM.

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can you provide HD Tune screenshot (Health tab) clicking usually ends bad so  get another drive asap

mY sYsTeM iS Not pErfoRmInG aS gOOd As I sAW oN yOuTuBe. WhA t IS a GoOd FaN CuRVe??!!? wHat aRe tEh GoOd OvERclok SeTTinGS FoR My CaRd??  HoW CaN I foRcE my GpU to uSe 1o0%? BuT WiLL i HaVE Bo0tllEnEcKs? RyZEN dOeS NoT peRfORm BetTer wItH HiGhER sPEED RaM!!! dId i WiN teH SiLiCON LotTerrY? yOu ShoUlD dEsHrOuD uR GPU. my SYstEm iS UNDerPerforMiNg iN WarzONE. can mY Pc Run WiNdOwS 11 ?? woUld BaKInG MY GRaPHics card fIX it? MultimETeR TeSTiNG!! aMd'S GpU DrIvErS aRe as goOD aS NviDia's YOU SHoUlD oVERCloCk yOUR ramS To 5000C18! jellYfIn Client siDE TRanscoDinG

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can you provide HD Tune screenshot (Health tab) clicking usually ends bad so  get another drive asap

I'll get HD Tune in a moment meanwhile I found that SpeedFan gives some information too, can you or someone explain what this means, also for me it's like saying that there is a program that could fix this.

And I suppose I will have to unplug it then, I really don't have any money for a new drive :(. Nor want to loose data by sending it in for warranty. Still has 1 year warranty.

I attached the file as it doesn't seem to show the graph correctly.

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 1xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400) 1xBenq IPS 32" 4k; Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM.

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can you provide HD Tune screenshot (Health tab) clicking usually ends bad so  get another drive asap

Here is the screenshot:

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 1xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400) 1xBenq IPS 32" 4k; Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM.

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your hdd is in a better state than mine

you can do Scan Disk (right click to your harddrive go to Tools then check now check both checkbox' and let it run it will take a while) it will re place the sectors that was corrupted so you wont be using corrupted sectors

mY sYsTeM iS Not pErfoRmInG aS gOOd As I sAW oN yOuTuBe. WhA t IS a GoOd FaN CuRVe??!!? wHat aRe tEh GoOd OvERclok SeTTinGS FoR My CaRd??  HoW CaN I foRcE my GpU to uSe 1o0%? BuT WiLL i HaVE Bo0tllEnEcKs? RyZEN dOeS NoT peRfORm BetTer wItH HiGhER sPEED RaM!!! dId i WiN teH SiLiCON LotTerrY? yOu ShoUlD dEsHrOuD uR GPU. my SYstEm iS UNDerPerforMiNg iN WarzONE. can mY Pc Run WiNdOwS 11 ?? woUld BaKInG MY GRaPHics card fIX it? MultimETeR TeSTiNG!! aMd'S GpU DrIvErS aRe as goOD aS NviDia's YOU SHoUlD oVERCloCk yOUR ramS To 5000C18! jellYfIn Client siDE TRanscoDinG

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your hdd is in a better state than mine

you can do Scan Disk (right click to your harddrive go to Tools then check now check both checkbox' and let it run it will take a while) it will re place the sectors that was corrupted so you wont be using corrupted sectors

Look at the difference at raw data errors mine is almost 183.000.000 yours is 173 or so.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 1xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400) 1xBenq IPS 32" 4k; Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM.

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Look at the difference at raw data errors mine is almost 183.000.000 yours is 173 or so.

yeah i didnt noticed that and the comments above yours seems to be right 

mY sYsTeM iS Not pErfoRmInG aS gOOd As I sAW oN yOuTuBe. WhA t IS a GoOd FaN CuRVe??!!? wHat aRe tEh GoOd OvERclok SeTTinGS FoR My CaRd??  HoW CaN I foRcE my GpU to uSe 1o0%? BuT WiLL i HaVE Bo0tllEnEcKs? RyZEN dOeS NoT peRfORm BetTer wItH HiGhER sPEED RaM!!! dId i WiN teH SiLiCON LotTerrY? yOu ShoUlD dEsHrOuD uR GPU. my SYstEm iS UNDerPerforMiNg iN WarzONE. can mY Pc Run WiNdOwS 11 ?? woUld BaKInG MY GRaPHics card fIX it? MultimETeR TeSTiNG!! aMd'S GpU DrIvErS aRe as goOD aS NviDia's YOU SHoUlD oVERCloCk yOUR ramS To 5000C18! jellYfIn Client siDE TRanscoDinG

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yeah i didnt noticed that and the comments above yours seems to be right 

Well I will let this check disk to run on the first partition, then unplug it from the computer and contact the customer service about it. But the fact that I have no idea where to save my stuff is bad... real bad.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 1xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400) 1xBenq IPS 32" 4k; Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM.

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Well I will let this check disk to run on the first partition, then unplug it from the computer and contact the customer service about it. But the fact that I have no idea where to save my stuff is bad... real bad.

actually dont just plug it out until you get a new one

mY sYsTeM iS Not pErfoRmInG aS gOOd As I sAW oN yOuTuBe. WhA t IS a GoOd FaN CuRVe??!!? wHat aRe tEh GoOd OvERclok SeTTinGS FoR My CaRd??  HoW CaN I foRcE my GpU to uSe 1o0%? BuT WiLL i HaVE Bo0tllEnEcKs? RyZEN dOeS NoT peRfORm BetTer wItH HiGhER sPEED RaM!!! dId i WiN teH SiLiCON LotTerrY? yOu ShoUlD dEsHrOuD uR GPU. my SYstEm iS UNDerPerforMiNg iN WarzONE. can mY Pc Run WiNdOwS 11 ?? woUld BaKInG MY GRaPHics card fIX it? MultimETeR TeSTiNG!! aMd'S GpU DrIvErS aRe as goOD aS NviDia's YOU SHoUlD oVERCloCk yOUR ramS To 5000C18! jellYfIn Client siDE TRanscoDinG

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actually dont just plug it out until you get a new one

Yeah, you know... I would need money before I could get one... I will contact them to see what they are saying, then decide how/when. I might have to persuade a friend to buy an external drive and give it to me until they fix mine :D

Edit here is what CheckDisk came out with:

 

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12; GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 Gigabyte Vision OC V2 10GB; PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified; RAM: 4x32GB (w/RGB xd); SSD: 1xM.2 Samsung 980 Pro 1TB, 1xM.2 Samsung 970 Pro 1TB, 1xWD 6TB HDD; OS: 10; Monitor: 1xAorus IPS 27" (2560x1400) 1xBenq IPS 32" 4k; Keyboard: Corsair K95; Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight w/ Steelseries QcK mousepad.

Laptop - HP Omen 15" w/5800U, GPU 3070, 1TB M.2 WD Black, 2TB M.2 Samsung 980 Pro, 64GB RAM.

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