vista64 hdd tools?

trick0502

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okay my raid 0 is reporting that it had a read write error. i ran hdtune and it came back with no errors. so i tried to run the seagate tools for windows but i cant find a version that will work work with vista64. does anyone know of something that i can run?
 
Seatools is not for testing an array, it is for testing individual drives. Don't waste your time with the Windows version anyway. Their own documentation tells you to switch to the Dos based version if you encounter any errors with the windows version. :rolleyes:

They have a version that makes a bootable CD which is much better than the floppy version.

If it does not see your drives, you may have to remove them from the array, or temporarily disable the array to allow testing.

Don
 
can i temp disable the array and re enable it without losing data? cause even in dos mode it doesnt see the array, and forget the windows version.
 
You should be OK, but I have not played with a Raid array in a couple of years. You may want to get someone to verify this before you disable it.

Once you reenable the array, you may have to go into the bios and add the drives back into an array and then it should recognize the existing array information on the drives and boot normally.

Don
 
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