Thank you everyone for the courtesy of your helpful replies.

I have already made the decision in replacing the drive - it is such a shame. I blew $300 on a WD Elements 8TB Desktop drive and a 5TB...

Why for DOS? It looks like for that, I would need to install the program onto a floppy disk or a CD. My laptop does not have a CD or floppy disk drive. Would downloading regular SeaTools work as...

Okay, so I have all of my files from the drive backed up to 3 different locations - my internal C: drive, and 2 other 4TB Seagate External Drives.

FORMAT DISK - Could you guide me as to how to do...

Hi everyone,

I'm concerned about the health of my Seagate 8TB Desktop drive. I have owned this drive since 03/16/2019 and have been regularly checking up on it through Hard Disk Sentinel - the...

Okay, thanks for your help.

TO thomaseg1:

Okay, although by "change plan settings" I think you mean "edit plan settings" as it says in my control panel. Your control panel must have slightly different options.

Anyway,...

Event 410 and 400, Source: Kernel-PnP, 03/16/2019. Just the startup of the drive. No errors. How do I check the advance settings to view USB settings? I can view USB bus controllers in Device manager...

Hi guys,

A month ago (03/16/2019) I purchased and started to use an 8TB Seagate Desktop external hard drive with my laptop computer (2018 HP Pavilion 15t-cc500 CTO). I had been backing up my data...

Okay, so I opened an Admin Powershell and typed "chkdsk C: /F" typed "Y" and then restarted my computer. It only took a few minutes to do its check. I opened Event Viewer once my desktop had loaded -...

Thanks dalchina.

I couldn't get very far with your instructions. I'm attaching my screenshot of the Sentinel GUI (which I assumed was the first screen upon startup, reading "The hard disk status...

My computer has been running into a few random problems over the last few months and I am a bit concerned.

Rebooting has helped solve the problems I am about to describe - only temporarily. They...

Thanks for the reply Bree.

There is not more than one user account on my PC. In the folder "Users" there is my main account with my registered username, and a folder named "Public". Public...

Hi! This is my first thread post.

I'm very concerned about this problem which I know little about. I am an avid mp3 collector and massively download files onto a 4TB external drive. The last time...