Having said all that, my windows partition has become unbootable (ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupted, etc.) multiple times over the last several years, and other than the fact that windows is relatively unreliable, bad sectors would explain why it keeps messing up. see these screenshots:Įdit: wikipedia's entry for SMART has this to say for each of these attributes: "The raw value has different structure for different vendors and is often not meaningful as a decimal number." Using SeaTools Do not remove the SeaTools CD while the tests are running.
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If you have questions about this or any other Seagate software or service products, please contact your system supplier. The following instructions will help you get the most out of this new software tool. Running fdisk and ntfsfix didn't find anything (other than ntfsinfo saying that my windows volume was "scheduled for check")ĭisk utility is reporting some crazy numbers in other places: the read error rate is over 60 million (yet still green), the seek error rate is over 150 billion (yet still green), hardware ECC recovered is over 84 million (again, green). The Seagate SeaTools software is easy to load and simple to use.
Disk utility is reporting I have a bad sector on my hard drive.
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