- Dec 30, 2012
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Hi
I just had a HDD die, a 3Tb Seagate external, which I've now read are prone to overheating. Good news bad news ... Bad news is that it died prematurely. Fortunately, however, most of the data was backup .... I have the originals of all my important data . There was some lost data which was multimedia and it's replaceable. The drive failed at 11 months and 2 weeks - 2 weeks before the warranty ended, and Seagate has approved the warranty. Now to test whether their warranty promise is actually fulfilled.
There was also some multimedia data on the drive which had been deleted that was not backed up. I see it in the recycle bin, but I know the restore path goes to the now missing dead drive. I'm afraid to click 'restore' as I have no idea what happens when the restore path no longer exists. Is there any way to redirect that data to another path? I've had no experience with this.
Thanks
I just had a HDD die, a 3Tb Seagate external, which I've now read are prone to overheating. Good news bad news ... Bad news is that it died prematurely. Fortunately, however, most of the data was backup .... I have the originals of all my important data . There was some lost data which was multimedia and it's replaceable. The drive failed at 11 months and 2 weeks - 2 weeks before the warranty ended, and Seagate has approved the warranty. Now to test whether their warranty promise is actually fulfilled.
There was also some multimedia data on the drive which had been deleted that was not backed up. I see it in the recycle bin, but I know the restore path goes to the now missing dead drive. I'm afraid to click 'restore' as I have no idea what happens when the restore path no longer exists. Is there any way to redirect that data to another path? I've had no experience with this.
Thanks
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