Gotta love Seagate quality, lol.Better alternative to DBAN software – AOMEI Partition Assistantĭarik’s Boot And Nuke (DBAN) is a free hard drive eraser and data clearing utility. No errors were recorded during the short and long test, so I can't send that back. I did test the new drive with SeaTools and it passed with flying colors. This noise eventually progressed into the click of death, and the ensuing bad sectors. The new drive is making the same tinny sound as the old one when it was first new.

Though I have a feeling I may be doing this whole song and dance again next year. I've packed the drive up and sent it back to Seagate. I tested it on a 10 year old P3 I have and it was able to see the drive, so I know my media was OK.Īnyway, I was happy with the one pass that Kill Disk performed. After doing more research, it appears that Secure Erase is not compatible with some Mobos. My guess was that it was unable to see my drive. It would always hang after the screen where I accept the license agreement and before I am supposed to choose my hard drive.

After trying both version 3.1 and 4.0, it would not work. For fun, I decided to try using Secure Erase to wipe it again as I heard that it was superior to other tools at wiping drives due to its ability to make use of the erase command built into hard drives. It took about 24 hours to wipe the drive.

This one worked successfully without issue. This does a one pass zero wipe of the drive. So next, I moved onto Active Kill Disk free edition. After researching, it appears that it wasn't meant to wipe hard drives with bad sectors, which is the problem with my drive, hence why I want to wipe it before returning it to Segate for RMA. After about half an hour of running the wipe, DBAN errored out. I will go ahead and update/put this thread to rest.Īfter taking out the drive and hooking it up via USB, DBAN was finally able to see it. Click to expand.Thanks for the suggestion! Greatly appreciated! I did give secure erase a shot as well.

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