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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
Hi Stephen, I did not disappear without even thanking you for your help and patience.
The whole of yesterday I downloaded countless versions of Seatools for Windows, (1.0.2.10, 1.0.2.08, 1.0.2.06) from different sites (Seagate, MajorGeeks, Download.com, SouceForge), using different PCs (the one I was using yesterday as well as the netbook).
They ALL failed to install.
So far, Seatools for Windows is the only soft which I have not been able to use. As one pc was "temperamental", I used its SATA cabling to wire the HD up in the pc I was using yesterday, but Seatools for DOS (from the Hiren Disk) still crashed out, half way through the checking. Hiren has the DOS/graphical and the DOS/command line, tried both, no joy. Last thing, I tried I run Victoria (vers 4.46b, 12-08-2008) again to read the blocks individually. This test is still (fingers crossed) running, after 10 h has done ~47%. It has issued a warning for a "Slow block (297ms access time).
If you aren't familiar with Victoria (I wasn't), I found this link
http://hardware-today.com/articles/hdds ... dd_repairs
quite useful. Note that, although it is the same version, my default values (for organising /presenting the read speed results) are different from mine, which are 5, 20, 50, 200, 600 (ms).
While writing these notes, Victoria stopped, soft still responding. So I will resume it later on.
I also downloaded the ISO for Seatools for DOS, and I am going to run it and see if it sheds any light on this HD. It will run in Freedos, so the pc won't be online, but not wishing to have issues with failing PSU on the other PC, I will run it here, I can follow the forum from the netbook
Guess what.. it does not run either. It creates the C:RAM drive, but while copying files it run out of space (for info, that PC is an Athlon 64 with 2Gb of RAM).
I think that I try to burn the iso of a newer version of Hiren (15.2, not 14.0) to see if the software onboard run any better.
Can you please suggest any other RELIABLE testing software which I could use? I am running out of options (although Victoria got me somewhere).
Many thanks, Berillio
The whole of yesterday I downloaded countless versions of Seatools for Windows, (1.0.2.10, 1.0.2.08, 1.0.2.06) from different sites (Seagate, MajorGeeks, Download.com, SouceForge), using different PCs (the one I was using yesterday as well as the netbook).
They ALL failed to install.
So far, Seatools for Windows is the only soft which I have not been able to use. As one pc was "temperamental", I used its SATA cabling to wire the HD up in the pc I was using yesterday, but Seatools for DOS (from the Hiren Disk) still crashed out, half way through the checking. Hiren has the DOS/graphical and the DOS/command line, tried both, no joy. Last thing, I tried I run Victoria (vers 4.46b, 12-08-2008) again to read the blocks individually. This test is still (fingers crossed) running, after 10 h has done ~47%. It has issued a warning for a "Slow block (297ms access time).
If you aren't familiar with Victoria (I wasn't), I found this link
http://hardware-today.com/articles/hdds ... dd_repairs
quite useful. Note that, although it is the same version, my default values (for organising /presenting the read speed results) are different from mine, which are 5, 20, 50, 200, 600 (ms).
While writing these notes, Victoria stopped, soft still responding. So I will resume it later on.
I also downloaded the ISO for Seatools for DOS, and I am going to run it and see if it sheds any light on this HD. It will run in Freedos, so the pc won't be online, but not wishing to have issues with failing PSU on the other PC, I will run it here, I can follow the forum from the netbook
Guess what.. it does not run either. It creates the C:RAM drive, but while copying files it run out of space (for info, that PC is an Athlon 64 with 2Gb of RAM).
I think that I try to burn the iso of a newer version of Hiren (15.2, not 14.0) to see if the software onboard run any better.
Can you please suggest any other RELIABLE testing software which I could use? I am running out of options (although Victoria got me somewhere).
Many thanks, Berillio
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