

It supports only SCSI or Fibre Channel drives and is designed for use with servers and workstations by supporting tests of multiple drives simultaneously as well as sequentially. The enterprise edition is still provided as a legacy version for Seagate hard disks only. It supports analysis for disks connected via PATA/ SATA, USB, IEEE 1394, SAS and SCSI. The Windows version of SeaTools supports any hard disk regardless of manufacturer. It can be downloaded as a bootable ISO image from the Seagate website. SeaTools for DOS comes in a package with the FreeDOS operating system. It was created by Seagate in response to the fact that more than one third of all drives sent in for repair were actually not defective at all, thus creating unnecessary costs for retailers and the company by having to ship and analyze such disks. indicators and drive information, and perform advanced tests. It can perform short and long drive self-tests and read/write tests, extract S.M.A.R.T. Indicates Windows attempts to fix errors.SeaTools is software to test and analyze hard disks on a hardware level. Checkmark the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors option.Ĩ. Double-click to open Utilities, locate 'Disk Utility' and double-click to open it. Go to the Apple menu, click 'Go' and select 'Applications'. Connect the Seagate external hard drive to Mac. Under Error-checking section, click Check now.Ħ. Here is a step-by-step guide to do so: Step 1. Select the Hard Drive you want to check for Bad Sectors.ĥ. Option 2: Manual Method for Windows 7 Usersģ. Let Windows to Scan and Repair the Hard Drive Sectors. Allows you to Schedule when to repair the file system.ĩ.

Under Error checking section, click Check.Ħ. Select the drive you want to repair > Right-click the drive > click Properties.ĥ. In the Search field, type This PC > click This PC.ģ. Option 1: Manual Method for Windows 10/8 UsersĢ. Now, how to fix bad sectors in a hard drive:

