Storage Solutions Seagate 160GB read problem

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hesh

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Last week i bought 160GB Seagate HDD (ST3160812A). It was working fine until few days ago when it failed reading contents of few folders. Later it reported more and more reading errors until finnaly windows failed to recognize the drive partition.

Drive is there, and windows can see it but cannot access the partition and data. I ran a SMART diagnostics and it reported a warrning on "Raw read error rate" wich was around 50 or even lower.

As i see it, the disk constantly fails to read. I managed to run a recovery tool but all it managed to get is incomplete directory structure. Any file i try to recover cannot be red (or at least 90%).

Is there a way to fix this? I can easily get a new HDD with warrenty but i want my data back.

Here is some more info:

Raw Read Rate: Current 54, Worst 39

Seek Error Rate: Current 69, Worst 60

Hardware ECC Covered: Current 52, Worst 45
 
i had a similar incident with my 160gb seagate....not all the data, but my videos were gone...so i formatted the drive and then used a software to get as much data backas possible...but 25 % of the videos that i extracted were ruined...as they showed no video...
 
I'm not willing to part with my data without a fight. I can easily return the HDD and get a new one. But it's the data that's important.

Thanx all...
 
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