What do you suggest? I am surprised, brand new hard disk has such problems, never expected so from seagate. I just install SeaTools and seems still there are issues.
I was not happy so tried a restore from Toshiba recovery DVD that worked with no errors this time. Again n again I tried and got exactly same error. But when i installed Seagate disk wizard( re-branded ATI) and tried to make a fresh image, it showed a read error with possible bad sector. However after this ATI CD was able to recover an older image.
Tried Toshiba recovery DVD( basically a ghost image provided by toshiba) but the recovery was incomplete. Ubuntu CD and Parted Magic failed to see it.
Initially I tried to restore an ATI image but ATI CD had problems to restore( may be because HD was raw, not formatted so far). It was having a 40 GB Hitachi SATA HD( it died suddenly) and I replaced it a brand new SATA Seagate GB. I replaced the hard disk of my laptop( toshiba satellite M 70) yesterday.
