How to use seagate seatool boot10/2/2023 ![]() I used EASEUS Partition Master to erase the drive twice. Just on the off chance a weird connectivity issue is involved, have you swapped out the sata cable with a different one or checked for loose connections? This could also be a reason your drive won't boot windows anymore or accept installations. Of course if whatever that is going on puts the drive back into a "supported, frozen" state prior to you being able to access it, then you are back to square one with a locked drive again. ![]() Apparently a system bios or an windows operating system or the Seatools program can set this for the drive's firmware and the drive will remain that way until it is rebooted. ![]() I did find a strange case in a google search where a particular version of Seatools would cause the drive security mode to flip to "Supported, Frozen" which I understand is a security lock on the drive writing at the firmware level. This is all speculation on my part regarding what is wrong with your drive because details seem rather slim right now. It may be that a virus writer becoming familiar with this vulnerability may have written a targeted virus for the HPA and DCO on your particular drive. If a true low level format does not destroy whatever virus is on your drive, then there are a couple other possibilities.ġ) If the drive after low level format does not display any unusual activity or behavior when it is plugged into a known clean system, but does display the activity on the new system you are trying to get running again, then there is a possibility that the bios in your new system may have somehow been infected in the bios or some other semi-permanent storage besides your drive.Ģ) If the drive after low level format still displays unusual activity or behavior, then the drives firmware might be infected and the virus code could reside on the HPA or DCO areas of the drive which are not readily accessible to standard formatting tools and have recently been found to be vulnerable to infection from what has generally been state sponsored hacking tools. I know you said you did a low level format, but if you haven't written 0's to the entire drive (usually takes more than an hour to complete), then you didn't do a true low level format. Any one else run into similar problems or know a fix (other than using a different hard drive? ![]() I notice that security mode says "Supported, frozen" not sure what that means though. I haven't found anything on google about my issue other than it could possibly be a boot sector virus. Rebooted 10+ more times and I haven't scene the "Virus!" screen since. I rebooted and decided to give Windows 8 installation a try again, but this time upon booting instead of loading the Easy2Boot UEFI I got a blank screen after post that simply says "Virus!" I rebooted again and this time it loaded E2B no problem. Hooked the drive back up and also updated to the latest bios. I decided to hook up the drive to my main computer and did a low level format and partitioned the drive as primary NTFS and Windows 8 was able to see the drive & read/write just fine. Tried Windows 7/8 and same issue but I got an error code "0x80042405" couldn't find any info about this. Tried to install to HDD and installation hangs. I have an Easy2Boot USB drive with tons of operating systems on it and decided to boot into Linux Mint 17.3 and checked the S.M.A.R.T status of the drive. Booted it up and no operating system found, whatever. ![]() So I picked up a pretty much brand new Asus Eee Box B206 at a yard sale for $7 which was an awesome deal. ![]()
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