Low Level Format Blues.

[justingambino]

I recently low level formatted my 40gig Maxtor drive with their program to do so. I thought the drive was to blame for recent problems. I let the program finish, and i exited, and everything appeared to be fine. I can partition the drive, and format it. But when i go to install an OS they always have problems with the drive, the most descriptive has been windows 95, it errors on scandisk and says Directory "C:" needs fixed. It fixes, seems fine, OS won't load to that drive. When I do a "dir" on the drive from the startup disk I can see the undo file and the drive appears to read fine for me. Please i am so desperate right now. I almost threw it out the window yesterday and I am a very very calm person.

-justin.

 

[thaneboy]

Can you tell in more detail (the message of SCANDISK) ?,by this it will be better to ans

 

[justingambino]

Its not very detailed so heres all i get: when doing the directory check, it finds an error in the directory called C:, which of course shouldn't be right because, thats the drive and the drive itself has no directorys. I can either Choose Fix it, or Don't, if i don't setup exits. If i do fix it, Simply a file is put on the cd drive called FILE000.CHK. Its a rather small file. Why does it think my C: is a directory? yet it will let me format and partition it?


~justin

 

[Motorheader]

Check your IDE cable - you may want to switch cables.

Also does your system see the drive as the full 40 GB?

 

[DIRTsquirt]

In Fdisk is C set active?

 

[justingambino]

In fdisk the drive is set to active, i'll check the IDE cables in a minute.

thanks again guys

~justin

 

[justingambino]

Oh forget, Linux will see the full forty gigs and my win98 first edition CD. None of my windows version will read my 60gig harddrive, which i know there can't be anything wrong with that drive, i havent even really used it yet. I recently tried to make it my primiary drive (my 60gig) and while Linux was formatting it, it crashed out saying "Serious Error while formatting drive, must exit installation" Does this sound like IDE cables? or?