Harddisk is dead but also not dead, help me understand what is going on.

michalodzien

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I recently kind off broke my 5 year old st2000dm001-1ch164 HDD by force shutting down my PC using the power button many many times. After i did that i had to reinstall windows on a new drive as i couldn't boot windows in my HDD. Anyways, the funny thing is that a quarter of the disk is still working while the rest of it is just unallocated space which i can do nothing with.

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https://gyazo.com/f665d5f0a0f93ba00bd5edc14b08997b

Also as you can see it says that the disks are at risk but i don't know how to check what it means.

I tried using MiniTool Partition to mingle with the drive but it just said that the drive was dead or something along those lines.

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https://gyazo.com/835cace440625d41c8e11ce70b7a25cc

As you can see the drives are still there, I've formatted them since than because i plan on using them for something else now.

I want to know whether i can actually use those drives i got left without any problems, and whether i can get that unallocated space to work somehow.

I am a newbie to drives so please have patience with me.
I would really appreciate any help or anything that will help me understand this. Thanks.
 
Solution
Schrodingers HDD?

Anyway, go to Seagate and run drive diagnostics
http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/seatools/

I'm willing to bet the drive is unusable and should be RMA'd if under warranty or repaired.

If there's critical data you MAY still be able to recover some of it (even after formatting). You'd need to run something like EASEUS Magician which would scan the drive then give you a list of what it can recover. (takes many HOURS)

I recovered most of my data on a drive that was barely functional.
Schrodingers HDD?

Anyway, go to Seagate and run drive diagnostics
http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/seatools/

I'm willing to bet the drive is unusable and should be RMA'd if under warranty or repaired.

If there's critical data you MAY still be able to recover some of it (even after formatting). You'd need to run something like EASEUS Magician which would scan the drive then give you a list of what it can recover. (takes many HOURS)

I recovered most of my data on a drive that was barely functional.
 
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