On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 23:21 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:27 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:49 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > > ><snip> > NB: This also seem to apply to HD diags/repair. I had a Seagate SATA > drive that developed a couple bad sectors. I downloaded the dos diags > and it successfully repaired the bad sectors. Smartctl tests now report > no bad sectors. It was only two to start with, so the efffort seemed > worthwhile. Been about a week now - results good so far. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > mhr > > ><snip sig stuff> > > BTW, there is a freedos version available which I've not used. But I do > have DR DOS images available that I've used. WFM. > > HTH P.S. The Seagate software includes its own DOS OS for those of you contemplating any HD repair. It seems to be generic and it may be that other utilities would work with it as well. YMMV. -- Bill