[ubuntu-za] Seagate support for Ubuntu

David Robert Lewis ethnopunk at telkomsa.net
Tue May 5 15:58:37 BST 2009


Sudhashen Naicker wrote:
> Ultimate boot cd - linux based has the seagate tool on it - its just about 100mb. 
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: David Robert Lewis
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> ReplyTo: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Sent: May 5, 2009 13:20
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Seagate support for Ubuntu
>
> I purchased a Seagate Barracude 500GB SATA internal drive from Chaos 
> Computers last month and formatted it NTFS thinking this would be a safe 
> option. Needless to say, within weeks, my data was corrupted resulting 
> in the loss of valuable information. I managed to retrieve some of the 
> lost data using photorec, but am now stuck with the problem of not 
> trusting the drive or the combination of the drive and Ubuntu. There is 
> absolutely no support for Ubuntu from Seagate,
>
> This is the support response;
>
> Seagate Support wrote:
> Hello David,
>
>
>
>
> There is no Unbutu version of Seatools. You would have to test the 
> drives on a windows machine.
>
>
> ref:00D0hhzl.50036GX0w:ref
>
>
> How can I insure this doesn't happen again? Should I take the drive back 
> to the shop?
>
> Please help,
>
> DRL.
>
>   
do you know how to use it? I have the disk.



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