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First of all, take the HDD offline. That means power it off (Turn off your computer) and do not use it, by removing it AND unplugging GENTLY from your computer and putting it in a safe, dry non-vibrating place. If this drive is the only drive in your computer, you need to stop using that computer.
Second of all, you must purchase a new hard drive! Save up for it if you must, you must have a new Hard Drive or SSD to save the data.
Third, you must wait until you have purchased a new hard drive for the data. once you have done so, you can take your computer offline again, and reinstall/re-plug in your drive, then bring it back online and copy the data over to the new drive immediately!
It's hard to tell from OP's English, but I think he's just running low on space?
Not likely. The english is awkward but pretty heavily means the drive is failing.
Offline drives die too.
I've had more drives die sitting on a shelf.
Electromechanical stuff is just like us - it doesn't do well sitting still.
the magnetic domains slowly relax. if you plug it in once or twice a decade, you can significantly reduce the changes of that happening to an extent that you lose data.
Pretty sure that’s not the case, unless you rewrite the entire disk every time you plug it in. Nothing is refreshing those magnetic domains.
Not true. If it died on the shelf; it died the moment you powered it down. It was already dead.
It is true, do some research please before making such statements. Drives can and do die while on the shelf, that is partially because of something called bit rot but could also be because of the place where it was stored.
The chances of a perfect "as new" drive dying while on the shelf are low but are still there
Old ltt video with more info
https://youtu.be/Ie9qomn3_3U?si=8D4ejsx2OqqaRW-P
Like the other guy said I also think that he's just running low on space. Secondly not using the drive will keep it good for longer but it will still bit rot(if he plans to keep the drives for very long)
Not likely. The english is awkward but pretty heavily means the drive is failing.
Not really, he says that he only 10gb left of his 300gb.