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. -- Bowie