I have seen very large drives take 2 days to complete. I just go to bed and hope it is done in the morning. Note this task can take many hours and appear to be locked up. You can also try to repair the drive, as suggested above, or, from an elevated command prompt, run chkdsk /r and see if that repairs the drive. And always have multiple backup copies - preferably with one kept off site. So have an image, but also have backup copies of your personal files too. This is because if you have file corruption or malware on your system, you make an image copy, then restore from that image, you might restore the corruption or malware too. Image backups are fine, but they should never be your only form of backup. Your first priority is to back up any and all data you don't want to lose. It could die tomorrow, or continue to give you years of service. And sadly, that is as precise an answer I can give. How to use SeaTools for Windows | Seagate Support UKĮxplained on that link are as my colleagues have said - probable indications the drive is failingĬlick to expand.Until it dies. The warning on CrystalDisk and the faiolure of the Seatools ShortDST

That will confirm the situation with the drive and bad sectors and the file system.ĥ. My advice would then be to run to run if you have not already done so a MAKE the image/backup BEFORE you carry out any more tests.Ĥ. OR at the least a backup of your personal data.ģ. As my colleagues have said a complete system image is vital if you wish to secure the means of going back to as you are now. As you probably know it is a SATA interface spinning hard drive.ģ. The uncorrectable sector of 8 means there are 8 sectors of the drive where errors cannot be corrected and that means these sectors are bad.Ī sector on your drive is likely to be 4KB 4096 bytesĢ.

Is that what prompted the use of Crystal disk and Seatools Did you receive warnings on windows 10 that the drive needed to be checked

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