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S.M.A.R.T. fails. Seatools passes.

Posted: August 7th, 2010, 13:14
by curleyg
Per the new member instructions... There is no important or non recoverable data on the drive. It's my boot drive. Windows 7 home premium. It fails the smart test. I downloaded Seatools and ran the DST and short generic tests. Both passed. The Seagate website says if it fails smart it's dying. I have a second drive in the system with no data on it. I would like to clone the failing drive to the other drive, remove the bad drive, and be up and running. Is this possible??
Thanks for any help.

Re: S.M.A.R.T. fails. Seatools passes.

Posted: August 8th, 2010, 4:11
by chinopk
Yes it is possible, clone the drive, but don't go for fancy software they all fail on bad drives, try disk patch and do reverse imaging, or may be a Guru will advise you the best software to use.