SEAGATE & CONNOR

Jumper settings are in two places. For most current drives, the jumper settings are HERE. Otherwise, you can go HERE. Look down the left column and click on the link for your model number set.

MMMMMMM....How do I love Seagate? Let me count the ways.....

By far, in my opinion, Seagate is the creme de la creme of hard drives. Being someone who is sought out for hard drive repair and data recovery, I see a lot of hard drives. I so very rarely see a Seagate come across my desk. The extra $10.00 you might pay for a Seagate over anything else is positively the best $10.00 you will ever spend. As well, disk support is second to none, in my opinion. Seagate has so many different options available for disk management, that you just may want to format drives for the sheer pleasure! Ok, maybe I am getting a little carried away. Seagate has utilities to diagnose problems with your hard drive, as well as utilities that allow you to format and partition your hard drive for any Windows operating system, as well as the NTFS or FAT32 file system. As if that wasn't enough, for those of you that don't have floppy drives anymore, they also offer their fare in the form of an .ISO image so that you can make a bootable CD! Still not happy? How about an ONLINE disk set up tool for those of you that are adding a second drive and only have dial up!

If you believe you are having problems with your hard drive, you can download this utility. It will test for potential hard drive surface problems (e.g., bad clusters, bad sectors, partitioning/formatting problems, etc.) and drive recognition problems (e.g. hard drive that is not recognized by the operating system). Click on the title below to download the program to your computer. We recommend you save it to your desktop so it is easy to find.

Once you have downloaded it, in the case of floppy disk users, insert a formatted floppy disk in the floppy drive, and double click on the seatool program you just downloaded. Once it has created your bootable floppy disk, you can simply reboot your computer with the floppy disk in the drive, and the program will start automatically. You will need two floppy disks. In the case of CD users that want to make the .ISO image, download the image to your desktop, then use your CD burning software to create the CD. Click on the "Instructions for .ISO images" to get step-by-step instructions on creating a bootable .ISO image CD.

SEAGATE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - BOOTABLE FLOPPY VERSION

This program is meant to start via a bootable device. Do not attempt to run this program in Windows.

SEAGATE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - BOOTABLE CD (.ISO IMAGE) VERSION

Instructions for creating a bootable CD from the .ISO image.

This program is meant to start via a bootable device. Do not attempt to run this program in Windows.

If you need to format and partition a hard drive and you don't want to do it the long, hard way in DOS with fdisk, then here are more reasons why Seagate is the best. Listed below are three different ways of doing things. You can download and create either a bootable floppy or bootable CD, or you can download and install a program on your computer that will install second and subsequent drives on the computer from the Windows environment, or you can simply use the online tool so you don't have to download anything of great size (perfect if you are on dial up). Click on the links below for the version you want.

SEAGATE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION TOOL - BOOTABLE FLOPPY VERSION

This program is meant to start via a bootable device. Do not attempt to run this program in Windows.

SEAGATE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION TOOL - BOOTABLE CD (.ISO IMAGE) VERSION

Instructions for creating a bootable CD from the .ISO image.

This program is meant to start via a bootable device. Do not attempt to run this program in Windows.

SEAGATE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION TOOL - WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT VERSION

This program is meant to run in windows. Once the file is downloaded, double click on it to start the program installation.

SEAGATE HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION TOOL - ONLINE VERSION

Follow the instructions presented courtesy of the Seagate website and ensure that you READ EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU START!