Haunted HDD

[Zailyn]

Ok, so my grandfather has a CCTV system that was using a 1Tb Seagate Barracuda for the last 2.5 years. A few months ago he told me it wasn't recording. I went over and noticed that the system took much longer than usual to boot. Once it did, data could still be read. It recorded for a few minutes and stopped. I gave him a 2Tb HDD I had in my rig, and this HDD is designed for 24/7 use. The Seagate one he had, was not designed for 24/7 use.

 

I got home and plugged the HDD in the pc. It took much much much longer to boot into Windows. My boot drive is an ADATA SSD so it usually boots in 15 secs. Having this HDD connected delays the boot time by sometimes even minutes. Once it boots the HDD is not detected. Neither in disk management or other programs I installed.

 

In the bios, which btw also takes a longer time to get into when this HDD is connected, the HDD is sometimes found. I obviously changed the sata cables several times to ones I'm sure that work. When the HDD is detected I try to run a windows Installation disk in hope to maybe be able to format the disk, but if I am even lucky enough to get it found in the installation process, it fails to format it and it dissappear from the list of drives.

 

Anyone has any idea how I can get some more life out of this HDD? It does spin up, and as I said, before I got it from my grandfather,  even though the system took longer to boot, the data was Still accessible... 

Thank you 

[Thorimus]

I have no idea what exactly the problem is (I'll leave that to the experts) but it definitely sounds like the drive has reached the end of its life. Since it wasn't designed for reliable 24/7 operation it has probably worn out, suffered damage to components and corrupted code, leading to the detection and boot issues.

[cj09beira]

14 minutes ago, Zailyn said:

Ok, so my grandfather has a CCTV system that was using a 1Tb Seagate Barracuda for the last 2.5 years. A few months ago he told me it wasn't recording. I went over and noticed that the system took much longer than usual to boot. Once it did, data could still be read. It recorded for a few minutes and stopped. I gave him a 2Tb HDD I had in my rig, and this HDD is designed for 24/7 use. The Seagate one he had, was not designed for 24/7 use.

 

I got home and plugged the HDD in the pc. It took much much much longer to boot into Windows. My boot drive is an ADATA SSD so it usually boots in 15 secs. Having this HDD connected delays the boot time by sometimes even minutes. Once it boots the HDD is not detected. Neither in disk management or other programs I installed.

 

In the bios, which btw also takes a longer time to get into when this HDD is connected, the HDD is sometimes found. I obviously changed the sata cables several times to ones I'm sure that work. When the HDD is detected I try to run a windows Installation disk in hope to maybe be able to format the disk, but if I am even lucky enough to get it found in the installation process, it fails to format it and it dissappear from the list of drives.

 

Anyone has any idea how I can get some more life out of this HDD? It does spin up, and as I said, before I got it from my grandfather,  even though the system took longer to boot, the data was Still accessible... 

Thank you 

i have an 1tb drive with the same issue, :-(

no solution found tho