Bowie Bailey spake the following on 9/26/2006 8:35 AM:
Scott Silva wrote:
Les Mikesell spake the following on 9/25/2006 2:16 PM:
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:08 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well. I had a pair of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks to a power supply 'glitching' on me. The drives still work fine otherwise, but they have several dozen sectors each that will never be usable.
Most drive manufacturers have a diagnostic/repair utility that have a fair chance of fixing that sort of problem. Unfortunately they tend to only run under windows.
Look for the Ultimate boot disk; http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
It has many manufacturer hard drive utilities, and you just need to be able to boot from CD.
I burned the CD and tried it out. There are two utilities on the CD for Seagate drives, but unless I am missing something, neither of them have any diagnostic capability.
When you press F2 to get to the disk utilities, you have to use the left /right arrows to see more menus.