you voided the warranty. You're going to need to send it back as is. If you're worried about data that's on it, you can run the Seatools destructive diagnostics test and write zeros to the drive. The test should provide a return code that's needed for warranty replacement. If the drive is really messed up, it won't be able to wipe the data anyway. I'm afraid you're options are few if you want it replaced for free.