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MP 1,1-5,1 Bootable SeaTools USB not working

honeycombz

honeycombz

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Jul 6, 2013
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honeycombz said:
Hello, I have a SeaGate Firecuda I am wanting to run SeaTools on and have tried to follow these directions but never seem to be able to get the USB to show up as bootable and it doesn't show up if I option start to the boot manager either. Any ideas how I can run this?

https://macblogweb.com/seatools-iso-file-usb-bootable-mac/

https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/seatools-legacy-support-master/

I have tried both the graphical and the dos version.
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Which USB port?

Tried another USB thumb drive?

Did you "burn" the ISO to the USB drive properly?
 
The USB port in the front of the machine. Tried another thumb drive. Burned the ISO according to the instructions. Wondering if there is an easier way to run this program. Tried burning to ISO and the IMG to CD as well, held down C and got a folder with a question mark before booting to normal drive. How can I get SeaTools to work on my mac? Do I need to try something like booting to Single User mode and navigating via command prompt to the USB or CD ISO and run the program that way or something?
 
honeycombz said:
The USB port in the front of the machine. Tried another thumb drive. Burned the ISO according to the instructions. Wondering if there is an easier way to run this program. Tried burning to ISO and the IMG to CD as well, held down C and got a folder with a question mark before booting to normal drive. How can I get SeaTools to work on my mac? Do I need to try something like booting to Single User mode and navigating via command prompt to the USB or CD ISO and run the program that way or something?
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Can quite remember, I ran that tool just few times about 2 years ago. But from my memory, it was very straight forward.

Anyway, if you have spare HDD lying around, may be easier just to download and install Windows, then run SeaTools in Windows.
 
should a DOS program be on a USB that is formatted FAT32? I really don't understand why this isn't working. Do the cMP's allow USB boot? My CD drive is currently external attached via USB, and I know I was able to successfully boot a firmware CD from Crucial to update an SSD drive but am wondering if maybe that is different than DOS booting from a CD and the CD drive should be attached to IDE internally. Thoughts?
 
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