SeaTools for Windows installs on your Windows system. It's also available for Linux and Mac operating systems, as well as included in a couple of LiveCD/LiveUSB programs. Seagate SeaTools is free hard drive testing software that comes in two forms for home users: SeaTools Bootable and SeaTools for DOS support Seagate or Maxtor drives and run independent of your operating system on their own USB drive or CD, respectively. The latest version works with Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, and Vista, but there's an outdated edition you can get for older Windows versions. This program can be downloaded for Windows as a portable program or as a regular program with a normal installer. GSmartControl runs three self-tests to find drive faults: Short Self-test takes around 2 minutes to complete and is used to detect a completely damaged hard drive, Extended Self-test takes 70 minutes to finish and examines the entire surface of a hard drive to find faults, and Conveyance Self-test is a 5-minute test that's supposed to find damages that occurred during the transporting of a drive. View and save SMART attribute values like the power cycle count, multi-zone error rate, calibration retry count, and many others. GSmartControl can run various hard drive tests with detailed results and give an overall health assessment of a drive. When exporting information, it includes everything, not just a specific result you want to save Doesn't support every USB and RAID device

Seagate drive utility