I got a maxtor hard drive that was messed up. I tried to look at the site for some sort of hard drive tool to check the drive before I tossed it. My search got me to the seagate web site and a boot DISK for tools called seatools.

I ran the LONG test and it showed over 99 errors. Drive is bad and I am thinking trash it. But than I noticed a repair all errors button. After I ran it the drive checks out fine.

I am not sure if I can trust the drive or it really didn't fix it. So does anyone know what seatools really does? And should I toss the drive?

Thanks
SeaTools does a full check for bad sectors...if it finds them it marks them as unusable which is why you probably got a clean bill of health on the 2nd pass...
The drive may be fine for data storage but as a boot/OS drive you may want to consider replacing it.
There is no rhyme or reason to HDD failures,,,i've had HDD's that had bad test results and SMART WARNINGS out the yin yang run for 2 years afterwards...
That being said i've also had drives that checked out healthy fail 2 weeks later...
It's the Nature of the beast i'm afraid.Thanks. That pretty much what I figured....to bad it was my "C" drive....OH well...

I already got another drive and rebuilt the machine. I will add this drive BACK and use it for storage....maybe use it for downloading.

Thanks again....