How much faith do people place in what Seatools says ?
I had a problem on my family PC (the one I let the kids use !) where one of the disks just disappeared. I re-seated the SATA cable and the disk was visible again. I ran Seatools on it and it came up failing saying it had bad sectors. I have run Seatools for DOS several times and it says it has repaired the bad sectors but the Sort DST test still fails. The disk has been formatted (full format) and appears ok in Windows. Chkdsk finds no problems. This disk is out of warranty so just wondering whether to bin it or keep using it ?
Bizarrely, as it was I my mind, I decided to run Seatools on my main rig. It has come up with errors on a relatively new disk (less than 6 months old so still under warranty). I have seen no symptoms of any problems on the PC and Chkdsk doesn't see any issues. My dilemma on this one is that it's a 2Tb HDD with around 1.6Tb worth of games on it (I could clone it onto the disk above, but worried about the integrity of that one too....). It's going to be a serious pain to send it back under warranty. What do you guys think ?
I had a problem on my family PC (the one I let the kids use !) where one of the disks just disappeared. I re-seated the SATA cable and the disk was visible again. I ran Seatools on it and it came up failing saying it had bad sectors. I have run Seatools for DOS several times and it says it has repaired the bad sectors but the Sort DST test still fails. The disk has been formatted (full format) and appears ok in Windows. Chkdsk finds no problems. This disk is out of warranty so just wondering whether to bin it or keep using it ?
Bizarrely, as it was I my mind, I decided to run Seatools on my main rig. It has come up with errors on a relatively new disk (less than 6 months old so still under warranty). I have seen no symptoms of any problems on the PC and Chkdsk doesn't see any issues. My dilemma on this one is that it's a 2Tb HDD with around 1.6Tb worth of games on it (I could clone it onto the disk above, but worried about the integrity of that one too....). It's going to be a serious pain to send it back under warranty. What do you guys think ?
