A freeware alternative of HDD Regenerator (Dos Freeware). HDAT2 4.53: The main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices.Hard Disk Sentinel 1.00.5: Hard Disk health, performance and temperature monitoring tool (Dos Freeware).Gateway GwScan 5.12: Gateway hard drive diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware).Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0: Low Level Format Tool for Fujitsu Drives (Dos Freeware).Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 7.00: To check IDE drives for possible defects/problems (Dos Freeware).ExcelStor's ESTest 4.50: ExcelStor hard disk diagnostic utility (Dos Freeware).

DiskWipe 1.2: Securely erases the contents of a disk replacing it with random data or leaving the drive completely blank (Windows Freeware).DiskView 2.4: To view graphical map of your disk, allowing you to check where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it (Windows Freeware).Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) 1.0.7: Completely deletes the contents of any hard disk it can detect (Linux Freeware).Active Kill Disk : Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive (Dos Freeware).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. 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. 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. But after rearranging the boot order, seatools for DOS won’t run my machine just loads Vista as usual. 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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