A useful diagnostic tool, for both Seagate and non-Seagata drives, which sports an outstanding number of tests for assessing disc efficiency

SeaTools for Windows is Seagate’s collection of utilities oriented towards testing SATA, USB, ATA and SCSI drives against hardware conflicts, corrupt devices and virus threats.

In order to achieve this complex task, it includes a series of tests meant to diagnose the condition of all the internal and external devices, both Seagate and non-Seagate drives. This means its purpose is carried out for any modern drive, regardless of the manufacturer.

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SeaTools for Windows relies on a user-friendly, yet professional looking interface that comprises a series of menus which host a rich collection of diagnosis utilities.

Upon launch, the application automatically detects the installed drives (both internal and external), together with the model number, the firmware revision, as well as their status (which tells you if the device is ready to be tested or is still undergoing identification).

At this point, simply select the drive to be tested and choose one of the tools provided inside the Basic Tests menu. The S.M.A.R.T. Check and the Short Drive Self Test take the least, time-wise and both of them will specify if your drive runs within decent parameters, but without providing a detailed report in this regard.

A more in-depth assessment of your drive configuration can be performed by the Long Generic test or the Advanced utilities comprised by SeaTools for Windows, but be warned that these are very lengthy processes and some of them may even result in data loss (you are actually warned about this beforehand).

Other highlights include a check test for the currently installed antivirus solution, as well as a report related to boot drive properties and a collection of shortcuts to Windows standard utilities such as Device Manager, System Info, Disk Management and System Properties.

Considering all of the above, SeaTools for Windows is definitely aimed at an experimented audience. Improper or incorrect use of such an application may lead to severe damage.

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SeaTools for Windows 1.4.0.6

runs on:

Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
Windows Vista 32/64 bit
Windows XP

file size:

24.8 MB

filename:

SeaToolsforWindowsSetup.exe

main category:

System

developer:

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SeaTools is a program used to diagnose and test the performance of Seagate and Maxtor hard drives. You should use this utility if you've detected failures and problems in your HDD operation or you want to check your device current state.

What is suitable for the testing:

• SCSI, PATA and SATA internal hard drives;
• external hard drives connected via a USB or FireWire.

SeaTools versions: for Windows and DOS

There are two versions of SeaTools:

SeaTools for Windows:

• with a graphical interface
• and the program is available only for Windows

SeaTools for DOS:

• command line utility which runs under DOS
• and can also be used with any Windows version,
• it's pretty convenient to launch it from a boot disk in order to restore your HDD performance (we've already told you how to burn such disk)

Despite the fact that the DOS version of SeaTools has more capabilities, in this review we'll discuss the GUI version of the program for Windows 10.

Where you can download SeaTools from

For safety reasons it's better to download SeaTools from the official website in 'Downloads' section at the link SeaTools for Windows.

3 main features of SeaTools

The main purpose of SeaTools utility is to detect errors in your hard drive performance and find out whether it should be replaced on a warranty.

Tests are provided in order to check the current state. As a result of it, detailed information on its performance and the status of each test is displayed.

One of such tests is Acoustic Test which allows you to detect problems, if your hard drive makes suspicious sounds. For such purpose SeaTools accelerates and stops an HDD so that you can hear how it works and check if it makes “unhealthy” noise.

Another feature is the repair of bad sectors on SATA hard drives and external USB flash drives. If bad sectors are found after testing, not only SeaTools will display errors, but it will also offer you to fix them (replace the damaged blocks with backup ones). Thus, this bad sector will no longer be used by your operating system.

We should also highlight the reading of SMART-attributes. SeaTools reports on the status of your HDD as well as on the characteristics of your drive. This information will be useful for checking the status of your hard drive.

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Conclusion. SeaTools is an effective and free tool which will be useful for diagnosing and monitoring your HDD status. It's wise to use this program at least occasionally in order to prevent a sudden disk failure along with a loss of data.

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