This tutorial will show you how to diagnose your drive with Seagate SeaTools. Disk Utility is a built-in app in Mac OS that can help you format external hard drive on your Mac. Super Eraser for Mac is a third-party application that can easily format your Seagate hard drive and thoroughly erase all the data on the Seagate hard drive. I will show you the guide to use the two apps to format a Seagate hard drive for Mac.
Seagate SeaTools For Windows is A Comprehensive, Easy-to-use Diagnostic Tool That Helps You Quickly Determine The Condition Of The Disk Drive In Your External Hard Drive, Desktop Or Notebook Computer. It Includes Several Tests That Will Examine The Physical Media On Your Seagate, Maxtor Or Samsung Disk Drive And Any Non-Seagate Disk Drive. SeaTools For Windows Should Run On Both Internal And External Hard Drives.
After Testing, A Large Percentage Of The Drives Returned To Seagate For Warranty Replacement Are Perfectly Good Drives With 'No Problem Found' (NPF). Returning A Drive For Warranty Service Means System Downtime And Inconvenience For You In Packing And Returning Your Drive Product. Before You Send In A Drive, It Is In Your Best Interest To Determine If A Replacement Drive Is Really Necessary. This Hard Disk Diagnostic Utility Will Help You Make That Determination And Possibly Save You Time And Money And Preserve Your Data.
- It works on Windows only, Mac and Linux users are out of luck. Download SeaTools Minimum.NET Framework 2.0 is required and it works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
- This post will introduce you great and overall Seagate cloning software for Windows 10/8/7 and show you how to complete disk copy under the help of it.
- SeaTools - Quick diagnostic tool that checks the health of your drive. Our Story Blog Open Source Partners. Support Downloads.
Some Typical Reasons For No Problem Found Are:
- File System Corruption
- Driver Corruption
- Broken Master Boot Record
- Virus And Trojan Attack
- Spyware, Adware And Keystroke Loggers
- Hardware Conflicts
In Addition To Diagnostics Tests, SeaTools Also Offers Several Features To Help You Manage Your Storage Product.
Seagate SeaTools for DOS is a free hard drive testing software that runs independent from your operating system. Seagate provide a iso file which needs to be burned to a CD. Considering that CD/DVD drives are fast disappearing, and most computers these days support booting of a USB drive, it makes life easier if the the iso get converted into USB bootable. It is actually easy to do it on a Mac using the following steps:
a) Download Seatools for DOS from Seagate site (http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/)
b) Open the iso file downloaded. Simple double clicking should mount the file on your desktop. Open the mounted folder, and extract the SeaTools.ima to your desktop.
c) Rename SeaTools.ima to SeaTools.img (Accept the warning dialog box)
d) Insert a USB drive that you will use. Note that any data on this drive will be completely erased.
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e) Start your terminal window and find the USB drive identifier:
. Make sure that you get the correct disk identifier. In my case it was /dev/disk1.
f) Unmount the usb disk folder using the following commands in your terminal window:
g) Copy the contents of the SeaTools.img file to USB drive
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That’s it. Your USB drive will now boot to SeaTools. One thing that I have observed with the SeaTools is that if you have set the drives to be discovered through AHCI mode in your bios, it might not always detect the drives. It is better to change the drive detection to IDE for it to work reliably.
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For those looking to use the same procedure on a Windows machine, this link should help your out:
http://blog.nowherelan.com/2013/04/04/boot-seatools-off-of-a-usb-drive/ . For Linux and BSD, the procedure should essentially remain the same as Mac in principle, although the disk identifier & unmounting commands might be different. dd should work on all.