This seatools user’s guides don’t give me any help with this, I don’t understand the instructions in mkboot.txt that’s in the zip file. 3) Use the 'Folder' icon in 'Win32 Disk Imager' to browse the 'SeaTools.img' file located in same folder.

2) Double-click Win32DiskImager.exe to launch 'Win32 Disk Imager' which we use to create the bootable USB disc. Running that DOS kernel from the separate freeDOS package gotten from sourceforge works fine, so the problem must be in seatools for DOS rather than in my machine or my procedures. Follow below Steps to Create a bootable SeaTools For DOS USB Drive 1) Download SeaTool Bootable.zip (8.2MB) and extract to desktop. I see that the DOS source file is in the file ke2035asrc.zip included in the ISO but I don’t know where to put the files extracted from the zip to make a DOS-bootable CD. It installs onto your system and allows you to select a specific test. But after rearranging the boot order, seatools for DOS won’t run my machine just loads Vista as usual. Seagate SeaTools for Windows tests SATA, USB, 1394, ATA (PATA/IDE), and SCSI drives. The download instructions say simply ' download, burn, run.' I’ve downloaded the ISO file (SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO) and burned it to a CD without trouble. But I’m having trouble setting up seatools for DOS. I gather from the seatools documentation that seatools for DOS might be a able to isolate the blocks.

I’ve got an internal WD boot drive that’s showing bad blocks as reported by my disk maintenance apps, including seatools for windows. I don’t know in what forum this question would be best, I hope someone knowledgeable can address it here.

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