Just deleting files and folders leaves traces of the information behind and it can still be recoverable, so if you write all zero’s to the disk that will mean that all the old data has been written over and make it harder to recover. This tool can be useful if you had sensitive or confidential information on your HDD and you did not want anybody to be able to recover this data. Writing zero’s means that zero’s will be written to every part of the HDD. So say your computer has totally died and it will turn on but will not get to your OS then you can boot to the Seatools boot-able disk and run the tests to see if your hard drive is your problem. This is a useful tool when you are diagnosing a fault in your PC because it not only has a version that will run inside of your OS(eg.Windows or Linux), but has a boot-able version that you can burn to a disk and run at start-up. Seatools is a utility brought out by seagate specifically for seagate hard drive testing. And Long test passes fine.You will need Seatools by seagate to do this tutorial. Two different drives purchased at different time seems too improbable to me. I'm inclined to think that it is a false alarm. The Seatools Short Generic test also fails on it at the same phase of the test. It is also a Seagate Expansion External hard drive, but a different model, 3TB (STEB3000300). Long Generic - Pass 23:26:08 <- how can Long test pass when Short fails? Here is the log from SeaTools (I use Windows 7): - SeaTools for Windows v1.4.0.4. The Seatools don't offer SMART tests, maybe because it is external USB drive. I'm running now a 'Fix All Long' test that will take another 10 hours The Short Generic test still fails after it. Seatools have a 'Fix All Fast' test, which I ran. How can a Long test that is supposed to check the whole disk pass, but a Short test that checks only some parts of the disk fail? Then I tried Long Generic test, it ran for 10 hours, and eventually passed! I tried it several times with the same result. Then it starts Inner Scan and immediately fails at 0%. It passed the Short DST test, but failed the Short Generic test. It is connected to a computer via USB 3.0Įven though it is brand new I decided to run Seatools tests. I've got a new Seagate Expansion External hard drive, model STEB5000100 (5TB) from Amazon.

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