DavidR
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Strangely enough it is when a drive is really new (or really old and you start getting errors) that it may fail, after that they generally last for years. If it has failed so soon you should be able to get it replaced. This obviously doesn’t help with possible data loss, unless you have been backing up your data to an alternative 2nd HDD or external.
Hopefully argus’s test will confirm or deny this.