I've tried different enclosures and also no enclosures with no reduction with regards to the noises. A Seagate ST350064 Ultra/100 which has a constant high pitched whine (that drives me nuts). A Maxtor Basics SATA II/300 that generates very loud annoying clicks while seeking and Ģ. Recently, I purchased and placed two new 500GB HDs into external USB enclosures:ġ. And booting Seetools from a FreeDOS bootable CD will not even recognize these USB drives at all. SMART test or Info Report are shown to be not supported on my Seagate and Maxtor external drives). However, for my external HDs, only the Generic tests are available to me with SeaTools for Windows (i.e. I've often used these manufacturer supplied diagnostics on my internal IDE or SATA HDs with no problems in getting the diagnostic program to recognize and perform all the various tests. this is my first posting after finding this great website resourse and a search of the archive still leaves me uncertain about the compatibility of manufacturer supplied diagnostic programs for external USB hard drives.ĭo these diagnostics (like SeaTools) fully work on external USB hard drives?
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