Try the red paragraph first, and if that doesn't work, start from here instead:
Uninstall. Reinstall latest version (though it still has "the issue"). I'm using 1.2.0.8, though it falsely claims to be 1.2.0.7 while installing. During the installation process, before clicking "Next," Windows should throw some dialog-boxes at you about compatibility and wanting to reinstall using recommended settings. Click yes. There should be about three of them. Click yes on all of them. You should notice some activity on your hard drive. Wait a moment for it to settle.
Now, click "Next" on the dialog-box you would see during any regular installation. Let it do it's thing.
And one last tip. Before you run the program, turn off extended displays in Windows settings. Bring it down to just one monitor. The EULA/dialog boxes for programs using older VBA love to become invisible when multiple monitors are thrown into the mix (especially if HDMI is involved). (i.e.. CloneCD, HDDScan)
Then wait. Be patient. Don't click on the "scanning" window while it's trying to load or Windows will realize it's taking too long and ask you if you want to wait or end the process. If the "scanning" window becomes faded out while you're waiting, try dragging any other window across it. It should pop back to the front of the screen. And after a minute or two, you should see different progress messages in the scanning window, until the license agreement finally pops up.
If you're waiting more than 3 minutes for SeaTools to load, then it's taking too long. Kill the process from Task Manager, but also look from something called stxcon.exe and kill that process if it's running. (BTW, that process can be responsible for holding a removable drive hostage when you go to eject it through Windows.) Go to the program files folder for SeaTools and manually run the stxcon.exe file from there and then quickly run SeaTools from within the same folder. If you're watching closely, in Task Manager, you should see two instances of stxcon.exe. Let 'em run. SeaTools will do the frozen-for-a-minute thing, then come back to life, consume some CPU, then finally, it will switch dispaly messages and do the ATA scan, then USB scan, and then the user-agreement should appear.
If that doesn't work, you could always try setting your SATA to compatibility mode within your BIOS, so that it reads as PATA instead of SATA. That mode eliminated the delay for me entirely in the past. But adjusting settings in the BIOS is not for the faint of heart and one should take care to revert the settings after the scanning is done or your hard-drive access rate will be stunted.
canning for suporte3d drives. Please wait...."
