Hi everyone,

My 2TB old Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 is showing end of life symptoms:

1. Slow boot.
2. Slow access to the drive.
3. I can see all the files and folders and drive is always recognized.
4. When trying to copy files (for a poor attempt of backup) it's takes forever, showing speed of few kb to none until it saying it can't read from the disk and letting me skip or try again.
5. One of the folders that I'm trying to copy have weird behavior, just looks like it's been copied but nothing really happen; I even not getting an error...
6. I'm not hearing loud clicking noises.

* Windows 10 OS.

Seagate SeaTools results:
1. S.M.A.R.T. PASS.
2. SHORT DST 100% FAIL.

Full HD specs:
SN: Z1E6NAD4
MODEL: ST2000DM001
PN: 1CH164-306
FW: CC29
Date: 14236 Site: TK
PCB Model: 100717520 REV B

Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this.

I assume the probability of recovering this is very low...

Thanks!

Stop what you're doing, trying to copy the files like that risks killing the drive prematurely. If the data has value to you, get it to a professional; in it's current state this would probably be one of the cheapest recovery options offered (logical recovery). Thrash the drive more and you make things worse and therefore more costly.

If you prefer to do it yourself, and accept the risks that has, get another drive the same size or bigger and clone the drive onto the new one using something like hddsuperclone it will handle errors on the drive better than windows file copy.

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I already disconnected the drive, after few attempts like that. The drive luckily don’t have valuable data; I will look at the drive clone method and see if I can get something out of it.

Thanks !