I have a Seagate ST2000DM001 (FW: CC48| DOM: 02/2012) that I was using for backups roughly 350GB writes a week everything was working OK upon until a week few weeks ago my PC froze during a full backup. Unaware that it was my backup drive that had failed I ended up doing a reinstall because I was unable to boot back into windows after my PC froze. After attempting to restore from my backup drive I eventually figured out it was my backup drive that was the culprit :derp:.

So I loaded into recovery mode and managed to copy over pretty much 95% of the data the remaining files just caused the drive to hang due to I/O errors. I tried to repair the disk via HDD Regenerator but it seems there wasn't enough spare sectors to repair the drive. As the number of repaired sectors stopped increasing: Total 5464 bad sectors (Unrecovered 2364/2348 Repaired) [I cancelled it @ 2364].

I wasn't able to recover the remaining 5% of data but it wasn't a real issue. I've done two full formats (first one got stuck around 70%) should I:
1) Attempt to use this drive again?
2) Is there anyway to clear the bad sectors after a full format?
3) Can the bad areas on the disk just be set to ignore or something without utilizing the spare sectors?
NOTE: I obviously won't be storing backups on this drive again maybe just some songs or something

no question. Also being a DM I would bin it while making a "good riddance" face.

Though the PCB may be useful to someone.

Using HDD Regenerator wasn't actualy a very good idea. It doesn't actualy repair anything, It actualy kills off completely the heads if there is damage already. Bin the drive, it will die off completely very soon anyway.

I guess I'll just keep it for parts oh well this is pretty much my first drive to die on me out of the 15+ I have.

If any of the other 14 are DMs, I would suggest replacing/backing them up now, as they will surely die soon, too.

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