Hi. I resurrected my Seagate 7200.12 brick. Thankfully I got the drive working and copied everything off it.

I then ran Seatools - it found numerous and various errors... but then it seemed to repair the disk.

I have about a week left on the warranty - I am inclined to return it to Seagate with one of the various error codes I got initially after the de-bricking... but the drive no longer actually reports those errors. It doesn't report any errors now; hence I suspect it might be rejected by Seagate as a warranty return.

I'm sort of willing to give it a chance - after all, it is working and maybe it will continue to without any problems. But it also bricked itself suddenly without any apparent warning.

So - to borrow a phrase from "Marathon Man": Is it Safe?

Working does not specifically mean reliable...

Maybe its OK, but personally I would return it and get it replaced.