Seatools
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.
There aren't very many basic tests that you can run, but you can adjust the intensity of the tests according to your needs. Additionally, you can have all the information associated with the disk up on your screen (model number, series number, firmware version, SMART, etc...), or run an advanced test that could even erase certain information that you have stored.
Lastly, Seagate SeaTools also directly connects with some Microsoft system tools that come installed with Windows, but that you may never have even heard of, like the tool to eliminate malicious software, or the one that helps you manage hard drives.
Seagate SeaTools examines the physical surface of the disks in search of problems that may cause the disks to malfunction.
There aren't very many basic tests that you can run, but you can adjust the intensity of the tests according to your needs. Additionally, you can have all the information associated with the disk up on your screen (model number, series number, firmware version, SMART, etc...), or run an advanced test that could even erase certain information that you have stored.
Lastly, Seagate SeaTools also directly connects with some Microsoft system tools that come installed with Windows, but that you may never have even heard of, like the tool to eliminate malicious software, or the one that helps you manage hard drives.
Download Seatools for DOS sic here. Burn the iso to a disc. Boot from that disc and run Seatools.
Seatools Cd
SeaTools for Windows is a comprehensive, easy-to-use diagnostic tool that helps you quickly determine the condition of the disc drive in your external hard drive, desktop, or notebook computer. What's wrong with SeaTools for drive diagnostics? I just used it to test two WD drives - easy to use via HBCD (Hiren's) and it confirmed one drive was a complete failure (was known to be bad) but another drive (suspected to have issues based on performance, but also the controller is suspected to be the problem too) checked out perfectly fine, no SMART errors or bad sectors.