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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!