PC has 3 hard drives, 2 40GB and 1 80 GB (newest drive of the three)
Last weekend, my pc came up with a BSOD during startup, inaccessible boot device (I was booting from one of the 40 GB). Researched the issue and after nothing worked, decided to reinstall Win2000 on one of the 40GB without formatting so I don't lose data. Everything worked out ok with the 2 40GB, I installed win2000 and have the other 40GB as the slave.
For some damn reason, windows will not see the 80GB drive, no matter where I place it, as primary or secondary on IDE1 or IDE2. Jumper settings are on cable select. When I went to Disk Management, I could see the disk but it showed up as online and 79.xx unallocated space, even though there is at least 60GB of data on there. After a restart and making sure of BIOS settings, I cannot see the drive in DM anymore. I now have it hooked up on IDE2 secondary, and seems to be because of this, windows does not see my DVDRW that is on IDE2 Primary.
All 3 hdd are Maxtors, and I've run the Powermax utility on them. They all passed without any errors. I really don't care about the hardware, but the important data was last backed up a few months ago, so thats my bigger concern. I am usually good about backups but slacked off in the past few months.
Any suggestions? Whether I recover my data (hopefully) or not, one things is clear: Never buy Maxtor again :|. I wish I could say this is my first problem with Maxtors, but it's at least my 3rd problem with their drives.
EDIT: According to Maxtor.com support the drive must be partitioned for some reason since Windows does not recognize it, but like I said above, it was fully functional prior to the crash. Heres another question...if I use Disk Management to create a partition, I assume it will format the drive also, correct? After I restarted once again and unplugged the DVDRW and set the hdd as the primary on ide2, Disk Management now sees it again.
Also, I know that the drive has an old corrupted windows install on it somewhere, if I reinstalled windows over it, should that help me recover some data? Most of my files were in windows default folders (My Documents, My Pictures, etc) that would be written over by a reinstall, but I remember an option to install to another directory to prevent overwriting the old folders.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxt...dD13aW5kb3dzIGRvZXMgbm90IHJlY29nbml6ZQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1
Last weekend, my pc came up with a BSOD during startup, inaccessible boot device (I was booting from one of the 40 GB). Researched the issue and after nothing worked, decided to reinstall Win2000 on one of the 40GB without formatting so I don't lose data. Everything worked out ok with the 2 40GB, I installed win2000 and have the other 40GB as the slave.
For some damn reason, windows will not see the 80GB drive, no matter where I place it, as primary or secondary on IDE1 or IDE2. Jumper settings are on cable select. When I went to Disk Management, I could see the disk but it showed up as online and 79.xx unallocated space, even though there is at least 60GB of data on there. After a restart and making sure of BIOS settings, I cannot see the drive in DM anymore. I now have it hooked up on IDE2 secondary, and seems to be because of this, windows does not see my DVDRW that is on IDE2 Primary.
All 3 hdd are Maxtors, and I've run the Powermax utility on them. They all passed without any errors. I really don't care about the hardware, but the important data was last backed up a few months ago, so thats my bigger concern. I am usually good about backups but slacked off in the past few months.
Any suggestions? Whether I recover my data (hopefully) or not, one things is clear: Never buy Maxtor again :|. I wish I could say this is my first problem with Maxtors, but it's at least my 3rd problem with their drives.
EDIT: According to Maxtor.com support the drive must be partitioned for some reason since Windows does not recognize it, but like I said above, it was fully functional prior to the crash. Heres another question...if I use Disk Management to create a partition, I assume it will format the drive also, correct? After I restarted once again and unplugged the DVDRW and set the hdd as the primary on ide2, Disk Management now sees it again.
Also, I know that the drive has an old corrupted windows install on it somewhere, if I reinstalled windows over it, should that help me recover some data? Most of my files were in windows default folders (My Documents, My Pictures, etc) that would be written over by a reinstall, but I remember an option to install to another directory to prevent overwriting the old folders.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxt...dD13aW5kb3dzIGRvZXMgbm90IHJlY29nbml6ZQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1
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