NOTICE that selecting devices enables the Disc Test toolbar button, and deselecting device(s) disables the Disc Test toolbar button. You may select one or more devices by highlighting them on the tree. The Device List Tree displays all the devices connected to the systems host bus adapter(s). Pressing the Rescan Bus button will cause the program to rescan all the SCSI adapters on the system and rebuild the device tree. The Drive Selection provides some basic instructions and the Rescan Bus push button. The screen consists of three sections, Drive Selection, the device list tree control, and Selected Drive. The Select Device(s) toolbar button provides access to the device selection screen. When in Safe Mode the following functions are enabled: Safe Mode is designed to provide access to diagnostic functions that are not destructive to data on the device.

PS: I'd go right ahead and buy a new hard disk, but with the recent floods in Thailand they are getting expensive.Tutorial for the use of SeaTools for Enterprise, explaining all of its functions and options including how to low-level format SCSI drives.

IF the hard disk is at fault, would you suggest connecting it to the computer and making it a download drive? Or an external, it'd be a sad waste to just leave it like that, even though it's probably dying.

If there are any other tests or scans I need to run in order to ensure that the hard drive is at fault or to find the problem, please do go ahead and suggest. Thus I started narrowing down on hardware problems and in between I saw that on a few occasions the laptop would not recognize the hard drive at boot and would give No bootable media error. I tried to clean up the startup programs and left them to bare minimum and essential, ran multiple scans of CCleaner, Virus Checks, Spyware scans, but to no avail. The laptop was also working without any problem until a month or two ago, when it started literally dragging and every operation would take a long time, especially saving documents or even opening normal programs like Word which would open without much delay before. I tried replugging the hard disk to make sure the connector wasn't loose or anything, but that didn't seem to fix the problem. Sorry about that, what other information should I provide?

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