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If you believe your computer may be experiencing hard drive failure or if you would just like to make sure the hard drive you use to store all of your data currently is in good shape, you should test your hard drive for errors! There are many free utilities out there that perform some basic tests or read the S.M.A.R.T. data, but it’s hard to beat a utility made by one of the largest hard drive manufacturers, Seagate (I mean, c’mon, who knows hard drives better than those that create them).
SeaTools is a free utility provided by Seagate and can be downloaded from the Seagate Website.
Generic HDD Tests
After loading the Seagate SeaTools software, you will see a list of hard drives that your computer has detected. These can be (P)ATA, SATA, SCSI, or USB drives. If you check the box all the way to the left of the drive you want to run a scan on, additional options such as the “generic” scans will appear in the drop down menus.
The “Long Generic” and “Short Generic” scans can be performed on any hard drive, regardless of manufacturer, and are extremely powerful in finding hardware issues with your drives. Typically, I will run a short scan before attempting hard drive recovery and a long scan after an initial recovery sweep. Some malfunctioning drives will pass the “short generic” scan but will fail the “long generic” scan depending on where the faults lie and if the malfunctions present themselves spontaneously or if they’re a constant problem.
This is a great tool for IT consultants as well, it gives a simple and concise Pass/Fail for hard drives that can be shown to customers if they have concerns.
Seatools Diagnostic
Seagate-specific Options
If you are testing a Seagate hard drive, you will have additional options available in the SeaTools menus. One very important one to consider is the ability to attempt fixes on drives found to be failing. When running certain scans, a dialog box will appear asking if you would like to perform block-level repairs on your Seagate drives.
Screenshot of SeaTools for Windows 1.4.0.2. It has detected three hard disk drives, one of them (the second) is a Seagate Technology model for which it is designed. Three tests have been run on disks. In order: S.M.A.R.T test, short self-test, short generic test. | |
| Developer(s) | Seagate Technology |
|---|---|
| Initial release | January 30, 2007; 14 years ago |
| Stable release |
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| Operating system | DOS Microsoft Windows |
| Platform | .NET Framework |
| Available in | English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ |
SeaTools is a computerhard disk analysis software developed and released by Seagate Technology. It exists as a version for DOS (bundled in a bootable medium with FreeDOS) and Microsoft Windows.
Overview[edit]
SeaTools is software to test and analyze hard disks on a hardware level. It can perform short and long drive self-tests and read/write tests, extract S.M.A.R.T. indicators and drive information, and perform advanced tests. It was created by Seagate in response to the fact that more than one third of all drives sent in for repair were actually not defective at all, thus creating unnecessary costs for retailers and the company by having to ship and analyze such disks.[1][2]
SeaTools for DOS[edit]
SeaTools for DOS comes in a package with the FreeDOS operating system. It can be downloaded as a bootable ISO image from the Seagate website.
Seatools Download Dos
SeaTools for Windows[edit]
The Windows version of SeaTools supports any hard disk regardless of manufacturer. It supports analysis for disks connected via PATA/SATA, USB, IEEE 1394 and SCSI.
SeaTools Enterprise[edit]
The enterprise edition is still provided as a legacy version for Seagate hard disks only. It supports only SCSI or Fibre Channel drives and is designed for use with servers and workstations by supporting tests of multiple drives simultaneously as well as sequentially.
Seatools Usb
References[edit]
- ^Schmid, Patrick (16 December 2005). 'Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 Details'. Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ^Cullen, Drew (11 June 2004). 'Punters kill healthy hard drives'. The Register. Retrieved 2009-11-07.