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Segate External Hard Drive How to test it

Started by zillah , Jan 05 2008 03:18 AM

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zillah

Posted 05 January 2008 - 03:18 AM

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I have got an external segate hard drive that connected to my laptop through USB cable, I doubt that there is a problem, then I decided to test it by using : Segate seatool utility (windows version not dos version) that I have downloaded from segate site.

I can see the external hard drive :
http://img515.images...eutilitysd3.jpg

But the test option is unavailable!!!!

Is there any other utility that can test such a USB connected HD ?

I knew that we can connect faulty hard disk directly to the mother and then run the test from CD or floppy, but this is not feasible in my case

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shard92

Posted 08 January 2008 - 03:37 PM

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did you download the software for the external drives? though I have not dealt with one myself just from the look of the website here:

http://www.seagate.c...port/downloads/

and from my poor memory when I downloaded the seatools for internal drives i thought there was something about it was only for internal drives....