SeaTools for DOS and Windows - How to Use

For Option Two, I am unable to run the program, not sure if the program is compatible with Windows 10 but it says unable to execute.

SeaTools for Windows always fails for me on Win7 64-bit. It stops responding at

"USB: Scanning for supported drives. Please wait..."

even though I don't currently have any USB drives attached.

Hi , thanks for the reply.

The only USB connected items are a scanner and a webcam, nothing with storage that could be confused with a hard drive. I'd rather not disconnect them and TBH if a program couldn't tell the difference between a HDD and a webcam or scanner then I'm not sure I'd want to trust it to fix my hard drive anyway.

Having said that, after a wait the program DID eventually start up, just took its time on the "scanning for supported drives". But it had nothing under the detected drives section! My primary HDD is a Seagate so I'm surprised. And if I click on Rescan, it just goes through the motions again and still doesn't find the disk and eventually returns to the same screen. So basically the whole Detected Drives box remains empty apart from the columns headings.
Both the fixed hard drives in my system are visible in both Explorer and Disk Management.

Yes I think I might give it a try. I'll let you know if it works.

Nope, useless. The program runs but....

"No hard drives found!"

"No disk controller detected!"

One wasted blank cd.

I have AVG installed but as I started from the Seatools boot CD it would not be running, so I can't see that as being the cause.

Well here's the score, I have a Seagate SATA drive installed which is my main OS drive, and a 2nd hard drive installed which is a Samsung SATA drive. I was also hoping to be able to use the Seatools to scan another Seagate SATA drive connected via USB, but this is NOT currently connected.
The main Seagate drive is the one I most want to scan.