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I have four 8TB Seagate hard drives in my PC. One of them, partitioned as drive M:, has been having problems while copying files from it - sometimes all hard drive activity on the PC stops for several minutes - I think itโs because there are bad sectors on the M: drive, and I am trying to scan it with HDDScan software.
But in HDDScan, I can only see the following names for the four 8TB drives:
ST8000DM004-2CX188-XXXXXXX
ST8000DM004-2CX188-XXXXXXX
ST8000DM004-2ZD188-XXXXXXX
ST8000DM004-2U9188-XXXXXXX
(The XXXXXXX Iโve hidden for security reasons, but theyโre all different strings of letters.)
How do I work out which of these is my M: drive? I have searched online, but perhaps the name โHDDScanโ is so generic, that it finds everything but how to do this with this software. Iโve used the dreadful Seatools, which clearly shows me which drive is M: drive, but Seatools is so terribly badly designed, and gives me no clue as to whether itโs actually scanning the drive, (apart from a progress bar that doesnโt change very often, understably, because itโs an 8TB drive, but thatโs why it should show some signs of progress all the time).
Iโve tried looking at Windows Disk Manager, but while that tells me that my M: drive is โDisk 5โ in my PC, it doesnโt show me any of the ST8000DM004-2CX188-XXXXXXX type names anywhere - unless Iโm missing it. Is there anywhere else I can find out which drive represents the M: drive?
But in HDDScan, I can only see the following names for the four 8TB drives:
ST8000DM004-2CX188-XXXXXXX
ST8000DM004-2CX188-XXXXXXX
ST8000DM004-2ZD188-XXXXXXX
ST8000DM004-2U9188-XXXXXXX
(The XXXXXXX Iโve hidden for security reasons, but theyโre all different strings of letters.)
How do I work out which of these is my M: drive? I have searched online, but perhaps the name โHDDScanโ is so generic, that it finds everything but how to do this with this software. Iโve used the dreadful Seatools, which clearly shows me which drive is M: drive, but Seatools is so terribly badly designed, and gives me no clue as to whether itโs actually scanning the drive, (apart from a progress bar that doesnโt change very often, understably, because itโs an 8TB drive, but thatโs why it should show some signs of progress all the time).
Iโve tried looking at Windows Disk Manager, but while that tells me that my M: drive is โDisk 5โ in my PC, it doesnโt show me any of the ST8000DM004-2CX188-XXXXXXX type names anywhere - unless Iโm missing it. Is there anywhere else I can find out which drive represents the M: drive?
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