After the chime, press and hold the Option key on the keyboard.
Insert the freshly burned CD back in to your Mac's CD drive. Procedure for firmware update via bootable CD (Mac): If the utility cannot automatically reboot your system, you must reboot the system yourself. Once the firmware update is complete, the utility will exit and reboot your system. The firmware update utility loads the new firmware on your Seagate disk drive. The SeaTools Express utility will scan your system for hard disk drives and display the Model Number, Serial Number and current Firmware Revision for each drive. These are the first screens you will see after the reboot. You will see a new boot message "Seagate Loading". At this point, Windows will shut down and your system will reboot. DO NOT run this firmware update on RAID systems and DO NOT turn the power off during the firmware update procedure. Very important instructions and warnings display. The End User License Agreement appears. The next screen contains an important warning to remind you to backup your system. At the Welcome screen, be sure to inspect the title, which gives a description of what products and firmware versions are supported by this package
In this example, when the application restarts in DOS, the language will be in English. It's not something you can run accidentally - choose the Advanced Tests option and you get a big warning message, and have to press to continue - but just bear this in mind, you need to read all SeaTools messages carefully so you know exactly what the program is going to do.- Choose from the list of languages. The program also provides an Advanced Test option, though, which may overwrite data, and so needs to be treated with much more care. These basic tests are (apart from the repair option) entirely non-destructive, so you can run them without worrying about data loss. Simple read tests allow you to confirm that a drive is still working correctly, and a Long Drive Self Test may also be able to repair damaged sectors. You're able to run a quick drive self-test, allowing it to report problems. status, for instance, if it supports that technology.
The program can check a drive's S.M.A.R.T. Seagate SeaTools for Windows is a collection of tools that will check your hard drives for hardware problems (although Seagate is the authors, but it works at some level with most drives, regardless of the manufacturer).
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