Mar 05, 2021 Seagate SeaTools is an official tool from the maker of Seagate hard drives, designed to help you identify possible problems in your machine's disk drives, or any other external drive that you may connect from time to time. Seagate SeaTools examines the physical surface of the disks in search of problems that may cause the disks to malfunction. SeaTools is a computer hard disk analysis software developed and released by Seagate Technology. It exists as a version for DOS (bundled in a bootable medium with FreeDOS ) and Microsoft Windows. MHDD is another SeaTools alternative for handling minor hardware issues. This tool is a very popular one and for many people, it’s the best free tool for low-level HDD diagnostics. You can diagnose SCSI, IDE, and Serial ATA interfaces with MHDD. The tool also supports USB but only via emulation drivers.
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Hi,
I posted in another thread about how poorly a new Maxtor/Seagate 500GB SATA 3.5GB drive was performing under Leopard.
It was replaced by Seagate and the new one is just as bad.
Someone in that thread mentioned using Seatools for OS X, which I cannot seem to locate.
A call to Seagate resulted in their tech recommending I install the drive in a Windows box, boot from the floppy and run DOS SeaTools to zero the drive.
He also suggested that the drive may not be compatible with my Mac HW, which I find rather odd.
I don't have access to a Windows box and don't
have a floppy to run under Fusion.
Does a version of Seatools for OS X exist? (Perhaps on a CD).
If so, and if someone has a copy, can they share so I can try to get this drive thing sorted out?
I'm currently zeroing the drive with disk diskutility, which is taking 24 hours.
Out of curiosity, is there really a difference between zeroing a drive using different utilities and what might that be?
thanks