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I want to shoot my 40Gb Maxtor HDD

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dsleesman

Junior Member
ok - i need some help.

My PC was working great (WinXP, Athlon 1.4GHz, 512 PC133, Geforce2 GTS, (2) 40GB Maxtor HDD's

All of the sudden, i boot up my computer, and my D: drive turns to garbage. In MY COMPUTER, instead of the normal title, it has a bunch of jiberish. I go into the drive, and all the files are currupt.

So... i look in "Computer Management" for that drive, and it says the HDD is "healthy" but obviously it's *NOT*. When i go into the HDD's properties, it says the drive is only a 248MB drive, and that it's in FAT (but it's really in NTFS).

Windows XP won't let me do a scandisk either.
The BIOS detects it fine.

HELP!

I've switched cables and tried out different configurations, but with no luck...
Tomorrow i'll try putting the HDD into a friend's machine to see if it works, but i just can't figure out why it would DIE ALL OF THE SUDDEN ?!?!?!?!


Thanks,

dsleesman.

 
do you have antivirus software running? I could be a virus.

I've had a mp3 drive go weird on me once, and I couldn't figure out why. It had signs of corrupt files before, so I reformatted it, and its worked beautifully for years since.
 
I have done flawless virus scans on my C drive, but of course i can't on my D.

I booted into WinXP safe mofe, to see if i could do a scandisk there - but windows refuses to scandisk it there too.

I can't run a scandisk from DOS, because the HDD is NTFS.

 
What does FDISK report from a DOS-level?

If the HD-info is screwed there, you might want to low-level format your HD as a "last resort" - might have been simply something that's gone quite, quite screwy in your FAT's (though they should be self-healing really) or even deeper, near the MBR. For partition information to go screwy like that is definately odd.

Try wiping the slate clean (i.e.: FDISK - remove all, create a Fat-32 partition) and scandisk it? Hope you can back the data up somewhere in the meantime ...

Good luck 😀.
 
I had something similar happen to my 40gb Maxtor. It was caused by a misseated IDE cable that somehow worked just a litle bit loose (could have been from heat expansion or something similar). Unplugged and replugged the cable, all the problems went away. The files and the volume label weren't really corrupted, it just looked like it. Everything was fine after the replug, lost nothing.
 
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