- Jun 23, 2014
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About a year ago, I bought an HGST 3TB internal drive. A few weeks ago, Windows 7 reported that the drive was going to fail, so I backed up my data and removed the drive. Nothing actually went wrong, thankfully.
I put the drive into an external-mount box, and reformatted it. Seemed to be working fine, and the failure warnings stopped turning up. I ran the WIN DFT disk checking software, and it reports no problems at all with the drive.
Is it possible that the failure warnings were in error, and I can continue to use this drive? Or is there a disk checking program that can give me a definitive answer on how solid the drive is?
(I admit, I could send the drive back, as it's under warranty, but if the drive's reliable enough I'd prefer to continue using it.)
I put the drive into an external-mount box, and reformatted it. Seemed to be working fine, and the failure warnings stopped turning up. I ran the WIN DFT disk checking software, and it reports no problems at all with the drive.
Is it possible that the failure warnings were in error, and I can continue to use this drive? Or is there a disk checking program that can give me a definitive answer on how solid the drive is?
(I admit, I could send the drive back, as it's under warranty, but if the drive's reliable enough I'd prefer to continue using it.)
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