
Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Should check the drive,do repairs and mark bad sectors so windows wont use them. You can probably boot to the XP cd and press R to go to the repair console. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. Seagate seatools can write all zeros to the disk but it doesnt mark bad sectors as far as I know. Any use, derivation, dissemination, reproduction, or any attempt to modify, reproduce, distribute, disclose copyrighted material of Seagate Technology LLC, for any reason, in any manner, medium, or form, in whole or in part, if not expressly authorized, is strictly prohibited. i will now start the RMA process with Seagate. However after running this test again, the drive now failed this test.

All coded instruction and program statements contained herein is, and remains copyrighted works and confidential proprietary information of Seagate Technology LLC or its affiliates. initially, the drive failed 3 out of the 4 available tests in SeaTools: the SMART Check, the Short Generic & the Long Generic.

Running the Short Generic test individually on both, the SAS-SCSI-FC passes and the USB-1394 fails.
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