Returning a half-dead hard drive under warranty?

Question

Iron

I want to exchange a hard drive under warranty, the condition of which is already critical. Yes, he somehow works, but he doesn’t have much left. Can they say in the service center that as long as it "breathes", we will not change it?

Answer 1

HDD in critical condition can be finished off with Victoria / MHDD .

Answer 2

Save the necessary files before it's too late to another medium.
You can try to let the disk work at full load: copy / delete large files back and forth, with a script. Do defragmentation many times.
If the disk "covers" before the end of the term, then you're lucky.

Answer 3

14 days or 3 years warranty which? I'm afraid with HDD as well as with vacuum cleaners

Answer 4

Try to pass it like that, if they refuse, then bother.

Answer 5

The material base under the expression "he has not much left at all" is not entirely clear. Are there any bugs in SMART? The presence of reassigned or bad sectors is the basis for a warranty replacement during the entire warranty period.

Answer 6

1) You go and hand over with the words "the files are hard to read, I tried it on 2 computers and a laptop, it's the same everywhere, they are recorded for half an hour"
2) You wait for an answer from the service center
3) You get a written answer and think about what to do next

Answer 7

Did you get disk status information from SMART? If you have a drive from one of the Western Digital market leaders, Seagate Technology, then why not contact a representative of this company, support service, provide them with the data and get an exhaustive answer, whether this malfunction is the basis for recognizing the disk as a failure, or is it a standard device operation.