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  1. I'm not sure if you're ignorant or intentionally trying to cause someone to lose data - but please stop with the misinformation either way. In case you're actually serious, I'd ask you to look up the definition of "bad" and "caution" instead.
  2. Unfortunately, not really. The drive seems to have a pretty serious hardware failure/defect of some sort, not much you can do about it that wouldn't cost more than the price of a new drive (I'd avoid SeaGate drives... Hitachi, Western Digital and Samsung are all good choices). Actually, that's exactly what it means - and you just contradicted yourself in the same sentence...
  3. I'm sorry for anyone you returned a drive to that required the use of that tool.
  4. This is incorrect. That program and others similar to it are useful for recovery, not repair (save for in the case of some magnetism issues you'll rarely see on modern drives). They mark off bad sectors on the disk that may not have been found yet (this would be done automatically, eventually), then attempt to read data from the bad sectors by altering the drive speed and/or approach vector, then relocate any recovered data This will NOT extend the life of your drive, and should not be used for any purpose other than attempting to recover data from an already failed/corrupted drive. Indeed. The second one is telling you that it has some bad sectors it hasn't completely given up on yet - the more concerning thing there is that the drive is going offline, which may be the cause of the read errors rather than actual bad sectors.
  5. The tool will scan all drives it's able to locate on the computer, if a drive isn't showing up it means that drive isn't responding at all. What it's telling you about your C drive is that sections of it are dead. At first, the data in these sections are just written to a space reserved for the purpose and the drive starts reporting a "Caution" state, letting you know it's beginning to degrade. You've passed that point, there is no more reserved space and the bad spaces are just being avoided now (as best the computer can). This will lead to corrupted data, and eventually a completely unusable drive. The 2133 "Power on Count" is just letting you know how many times the drive has been power cycled (turned off and back on). It has no relevancy to the life expectancy of the drive. Both of your drives should be replaced as soon as possible. The error message you received from BnS is telling you it was unable to read a file from the drive it's installed on, the reason being that the drive is no longer responding (same reason it's not showing up in CDI).
  6. Unfortunately, yes. If it's less than a year old then hopefully you can get it replaced under warranty. You can download Crystal Disk Info from the following link to verify: http://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfo Save/extract the .zip file, run the .exe and wait a few seconds for it to generate the data. Quote me and reply here with a screenshot if you want the numbers interpreted.
  7. Your hard drive is dying, I'd recommend backing up your data and replacing it as soon as possible.
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