Seagate HDD: Click of Death? Need Help!

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Alexander Paul

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Hi! I'll keep it short, please help me.

My Hard Drive becomes unresponsive when accessing certain files/folder/partition and makes a clicking sound rhythmically every 3 seconds with the HDD activity LED turning on/off in the process and sometimes results to a Blue Screen of Death, with an error of Kernel Data Inpage Error.

I already tried nuking/zero-filling and formatting the whole drive for I thought it's just bad sectors, but still, no luck after reinstalling Windows for the 9th time.

What do I do? Is this the end? Time to replace my 3-year old Seagate 2Tb? Got no budget though. Please and thank you!
 
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could be power issue, could be cable issue, could be hard drive issue. but heres a question does the test always stop at the same point? because a test is always done in the same exact order, if so its prob the harddrive at fault (bad spot on the drive). if its stoping at different times I would check for other issues.
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maxwellmelon

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so I'm guessing you already have a back up of the drive considering you formatted the drive.


run Seagate read/write test on the drive to check it, also check smart values. most likely it will show drive is failing and you will need a new drive, if it pass the test then there is something else going on with your system.

Seagate tools---- http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
 
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Alexander Paul

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Thank for your response @maxwellmelon.

Yeah, I already have a back up of my files.
Yep, forgot to mention, I already tried SeaTools. S.M.A.R.T. test says "PASS", but I cannot finish the OTHER tests such as the Short/Long Fix tests for, the original problem occurs; it becomes unresponsive, clicks, HDD activity LED turns on then off, and the test can't move on.

Is it possible that it's a faulty SATA connector?
 
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maxwellmelon

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could be power issue, could be cable issue, could be hard drive issue. but heres a question does the test always stop at the same point? because a test is always done in the same exact order, if so its prob the harddrive at fault (bad spot on the drive). if its stoping at different times I would check for other issues.
 
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