This entry originally was named “Seatools boot from usb stick”, but as I search on google, results that worse methods to create usb sticks are in first place, so I changing the name in hope that gets more visibility on the net.

Recently I need to use the seagatetools for dos to diagnose a HDD, to get a RMA for warranty, as my new drive came with several damaged sectors (in fact I can’t even format without DMA, and other errors, yes I changed cable, drive, and mobo, so its the drive), but there only two options, one are a windows download (that requires NET4 frame work) and the other DOS (FreeDOS) image, I wanted to use the last one, but don’t have CD ROM on my machine, so after go crazy as there is really bad documented (you can boot freedos with syslinux, but it’s not that easy and also tricky, and also working from my netbook don’t help [1], update: finally found how to make this from linux also easy and without that much hassle [2]) I found in some other post a really easy way to make this work. This is preferred as I finally get bored and unpacked a old USB portable DVDROM I had, but the logs of seatools can’t be written easily to other media (no floppy, no other drive, well other but with EXT4 and no fat o vfat partition). But using a USB stick you can copy directly to disk and do a lot more that undust that old CDRW disc…

by Ramesh Balakrishnan on Mon, 08/06/2012 – 12:30.

GO to http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/# and download seatools for DOS and

save the ISO on your hard disk

1)Download YUMI multiboot [2]
2)run UUMI by doubleclicking on it
3) Click on I AGREE
4) Select the drive letter
5)In the box below go to option try an unlisted ISO( boot from Ram)
6. On the box below click browse and give the path to your saved ISO file
7. click CREATE.

thats all . All you have to do is boot from USB and start using the utility.
If in case you have any problem in booting

then download HP usb format tool from

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

Format your usb– Uncheck quick format and do a full format( might take some time)

Repeat 1 thro 7. and boot from USB .It should work now !

This worked for me after some sleep and after doing some googling found that is not by far the first response nor a prominent one, so for the record and for kept where I can found fast if I need again, I repost here the insightful comment [3].

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1333956
[2] https://github.com/iiska/bootstick
[3] http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
[4] http://www.megaleecher.net/Seagate_SeaTools_For_DOS_Bootable_USB_Maker_Kit#comment-38392