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    SeaTools

    • Free • Proprietary
    • Windows
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    SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer.
    The installation needs dot.NET 4 as a precondition. If dot.NET 4 is not installed, it must be installed before. Then in a further step the new dot.NET 4-installation must be updated, before you can install SeaTools.
    It includes several tests that will examine the physical media on your Seagate or Maxtor disk drive and any other non-Seagate disk drive.
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    • Hardware Monitoring

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    Akino
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    • Positive comment • over 3 years ago • 0 replies
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    A good software to diagnosis HDD. I only use it as a Live CD before boot not on Windows. Through it is a bit old and should be replaced by something better.

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    dlovsky
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    • Negative comment • 10 months ago • 0 replies
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    SeaTools is horrible software to use. It cannot be compared to HD Sentinel ot Crystal Disk Info or Harware Monitor as it does not cover most of the same features. It should be rather compared to e.g. WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic or Samsung Magician or any other branded HDD Software for disk checking and report used during RMA and support.
    I privately own 20+ HDDs including dead and working, 2.5/3.5/SSD Seagate HDDs, and even more Seagate owned Samsung and Maxtor still working, along with Hitachi, Western Digital, Crucial drives.
    The most useful tools covering SeaTools features so far for any brand drives have been:

    • Windows own tools (diskpart, chkdsk, ...)
    • WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic, flexible to widely allow other brands to be acted upon
    • other generic tools to wipe, erase LBA, report SMART, check integrity such as DiskGenius, AOMEI, EaseUS, etc ... and aforementioned HD Sentinel, Crystal Disk Info, and Harware Monitor.

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    em4020
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    • Negative comment • about 8 years ago • 0 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    I do not like SeaTools because it is not portable as CrystalDiskInfo is, and because you must install dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe as a precondtition. dot.Net 4 needs 48.1 MB and it is only necessary for Seatools. The installation of dot.Net 4 was very long, and then needed an update, which needed a very long time too.
    In spite of successful installation of dot.Net 4 the installation procedure of SeaTools could not be finished successfully on Vista business 64 bit. Hands away from this unmature disk-tool.

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    Categories

    System & Hardware • OS & Utilities

    Tags

    • test-hardware
    • diagnostic
    • harddisk
    • hard-drive
    • conditions
    • diagnostic-tool

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about SeaTools, and it has gotten 8 likes

    • Developed by Seagate Technology LLC
    • Proprietary and Free product.
    • Average rating of 2.3
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    SeaTools was added to AlternativeTo by Thelle on Mar 30, 2011 and this page was last updated Mar 7, 2021.
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