[PLUG] What happened to my disk?

Kevin Cosgrove kevinc at doink.com
Mon Jan 23 20:28:30 UTC 2006


On 23 January 2006 at 12:05, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:

> > As I see it, I now have two choices.  I can make a new
> > filesystem on /dev/hda7 and move on like nothing happened.
> > Or, I can try to send this 1 year old Seagate 200GB Barracuda
> > back under warranty.  What would you fine folks suggest?
>
> Try downloading and running Seagate's diagnostic
> tools(Seatools).  They run standalone(DrDOS) and I believe they
> are non-destructive.

Looks like they have a floppy self-extracting .exe file,
requiring a Windows system to produce a bootable floppy.  They
also have an ISO CD-ROM boot image which just needs to be burned
to CD-R.  I'm gonna go that route.

Thanks for the tip!
 
--
Kevin





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