![]() ![]() Or you could do the same with other tools. If the drive passes SeaTools for Windows, your troubleshooting efforts can move to other areas. It installs onto your system and allows you to select a specific test. ![]() So if you have to repair a really large amount of bad blocks, you will need to run the “Long Test” several times in a row. Seagate SeaTools for Windows tests SATA, USB, 1394, ATA (PATA/IDE), and SCSI drives. It seems that the number of blocks that this tool finds and repairs at once is at most 98, as that is the number reported in the progress window when the Long Test will stop proceeding and instead show the list of bad sectors to repair (strange enough, this window contains only 90 item, and also it does not seem that the 8 remaining ones are fixed and just not shown). Why? Wasn’t it supposed to find and fix them all during the first run? So I let the Long Test run again, and it found again many bad blocks. SeaTools for Windows isn't as full-featured but it's much easier to install. The bootable version of SeaTools is more powerful but is a bit more difficult to use. While both testing tools are excellent, they are different. But afterwards the Short Test still failed due to an unreadable block after the last repaired one. Seagate creates two free hard drive testing software programs SeaTools Bootable and SeaTools for Windows. I did so, and finally the program said “Long Test passed after Repair”. Now when you run “Basic Tests -> Long Test” in this tool, it will scan the whole drive and at the end show you a list of bad sectors and the option to fix all of them. (Yes I know that this makes little sense as such a drive will probably fail in the coming days or months anyway … but I was experimenting.) I'll run the Long Generic and see how that goes.What happened: I used SeaTools for DOS v2.20 to try remapping the bad sectors on a Seagate hard disk which had approx. For more information on this subject, see the Help file topic "Bad Sector Found". This test has the ability to repair problem sectors that are difficult to read. If you have not done so already, please consider running the Long Generic test on your external drive. Now is a good time to make sure that you have a current backup of your important data. Unfortunately, your Seagate product has failed an important diagnostic test, possibly caused by problem sectors which are difficult to read. Thanks! I tried the Seagate Recovery Services program, that told be my drive was not supported. ![]()
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