How to use SeaTools for Windows | Seagate Support UKĮxplained on that link are as my colleagues have said - probable indications the drive is failingĬlick to expand.Until it dies. The warning on CrystalDisk and the faiolure of the Seatools ShortDST That will confirm the situation with the drive and bad sectors and the file system.ĥ. My advice would then be to run to run if you have not already done so a MAKE the image/backup BEFORE you carry out any more tests.Ĥ. OR at the least a backup of your personal data.ģ. As my colleagues have said a complete system image is vital if you wish to secure the means of going back to as you are now. As you probably know it is a SATA interface spinning hard drive.ģ. The uncorrectable sector of 8 means there are 8 sectors of the drive where errors cannot be corrected and that means these sectors are bad.Ī sector on your drive is likely to be 4KB 4096 bytesĢ.
Is that what prompted the use of Crystal disk and Seatools Did you receive warnings on windows 10 that the drive needed to be checked I did a memory test and no errors there as well.Įdit: After clean install I tried booting into Windows 7 setup again, but this time it loads it successfully, but all I see is a blackscreen with a mouse.1.
Now all this sounds good, but can I trust Seatools for testing an HDD that is made by Toshiba? I think its the HDD, but I want to be sure that I am not missing anything else. It failed the test at about 3% and told me that the HDD failed a major sector test and needs to be checked by the OEM or whoever sold it to me. All the fingers were pointed toward the HDD so ran the Seatools for DOS and did a long test. I had to hold the power button to get out of it. Everything was good for about 5 minutes, but then all of a sudden the windows started hanging up and freezing.
I tried helping him out by backing his data up and doing a clean Windows 7 install. After few days it just kind of get stuck in loading windows screen. My friend's laptop was taking forever to boot into windows 7 and when it did it was slow as hell.
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