

SeaTools 5 (Linux) Use this Linux version of the SeaTools GUI to diagnose hard drives and monitor SSDs. Downloads SeaTools 5 (Windows) Use this Windows version of the SeaTools GUI to diagnose hard drives and monitor SSDs. It kills the drive as it's scanning for drives to test.Įdit 2: Good news on this, Lenovo has responded back on the original forum topic that they showed the problem to their engineers and they were able to reproduce the problem, and that they are now looking into a fix. Downloads Get Support Now Speak with a Seagate expert. In none of the cases did I actually run a test from the SeaTools on the SSD, because it doesn't even get to the point where you can pick a drive to run tests on. I left a note with my laptop repair RMA, but I'm afraid it won't get the higher level attention that it needs without prodding.Įdit: Some additional clarification, this was done to test external Seagate drives. If anyone happens to know of a way of getting this reported to Lenovo engineers, please do speak up. So far, based on the topic for it on Lenovo's forums, there are 3 of us that have encountered this problem, myself having had it happen on 2 separate drives. I suspect it is a firmware issue on the SSD that reacts poorly to what SeaTools does.

I'm talking the partition table is gone and testdisk is unable to bring anything back killed.
#Seagate seatools. license
Read and accept the user license agreement and click Nextwhen the following window appears. Figure 1 InstallationIntroduction Seagate SeaTools SSD CLI User Guide, Rev F 4 Installation from an OS GUI 2. Click Nextwhen the following window appears. 2.5' SSDs that connect to SATA are supposed to present an interface compatible with ATA HDDs. However, all Seatools does is use standard ATA commands to access S.M.A.R.T.
#Seagate seatools. software
These command line tools assume the user is knowledgeable about running software from the operating system command prompt. SeaChest diagnostics are command line utilities which are available for expert users. Basically, when you run Seagate SeaTools on a Lenovo laptop with an SSD drive starting with MZVLW, it kills the SSD. For Linux, run SeaToolsSSDCLI.bin Follow these steps: 1. Ill admit that Seagate Seatools would not be my first choice for a Samsung SSD. SeaTools for Windows and SeaTools Bootable for end users are the two most popular GUI tools. I'm trying to warn people about this as well as get greater visibility of this issue, as I don't know any way to contact Lenovo engineers about this.
