Hard Drive may be damaged according to windows?

[Dulanic]

As far as I can tell the drive is fine, but when windows setup tries to format it it says the drive may be damaged and it failed. I was going to use PowerMax since it's a maxtor drive but it doesnt work for NForce 2 MBs yet... is there any other software I can use to test the drive?

 

[johnjkr1]

Powermax works just fine with nforce 2 boards, I just used it the other day to run a diagnostic on my hard drive. Are you using an old version?

 

[Dulanic]

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

That says it doesn't... and it hasnt been working for me.

Note: PowerMax v4.06 will not detect Ultra ATA hard disks connected to motherboards with embedded NVIDIA chipsets (SATA drives are supported). A new version to address this issue is currently in development and is slated for release soon. Please check the PowerMax download page periodically for updates. All versions of PowerMax prior to 4.06 are no longer supported, it is recommended that you update to version 4.06 before testing your hard disk.

 

[johnjkr1]

Wow, good point. I'm going to go try that out right now...I must be losing my mind because I swear I've done it.

 

[johnjkr1]

Wow, good point. I'm going to go try that out right now...I must be losing my mind because I swear I've done it.