Think my Maxtor HD is toast?

[Avalon]

I've got a Maxtor 160GB ATA133 8MB PATA drive as a secondary/storage drive in my A64 3000+/DFI NF4 Ultra system.

I was doing some heavy file transfering over to my primary drive, and the transfers locked up. I rebooted, and checkdisk/scandisk ran into multiple index errors on my disk. When I finally got back into Windows, I noticed entire folders were missing from my drive (We're talking about 40GB worth of folders). Sometimes files also refuse to open, giving me a CRC error. I take it this is enough evidence to assume my HD is completely toast. Think I'll still be able to save some data, or will anything I try to pull back over likely be corrupted?

This really stinks. I've had this drive for less than two years, yet I've had my 60GB Deathstar (my primary) for four. Thanks.

Jeff

 

[V00D00]

Yeah, your first mistake was running scandisk. I find that every time I run scandisk all my files get deleted.

If you hadn't. Your files would probably still be intact. I found that after doing that, many of my files were severly damaged (when I recovered them with some recovery software)

So it was pretty much all scandisk that messed my stuff up. I don't know about you.

I would assume that most of your files are toast. If possible, get another drive immediately to at least attempt to copy the files back.

Some good recovery software is SpinRite from GRC.com. It's actually not recovery software, but it can recover your bad sectors usually.

Some actual recovery software would be GetDataBack. Might want to look into that.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: V00D00
Yeah, your first mistake was running scandisk. I find that every time I run scandisk all my files get deleted.

If you hadn't. Your files would probably still be intact. I found that after doing that, many of my files were severly damaged (when I recovered them with some recovery software)

So it was pretty much all scandisk that messed my stuff up. I don't know about you.

I would assume that most of your files are toast. If possible, get another drive immediately to at least attempt to copy the files back.

Some good recovery software is SpinRite from GRC.com. It's actually not recovery software, but it can recover your bad sectors usually.

Some actual recovery software would be GetDataBack. Might want to look into that.

Thanks. I actually wasn't intending to use scandisk, I was just merely in the process of rebooting and not paying attention. It did its job really quick before I got the chance to see what it was doing, but did notice that it found bad indexes and such and deleted them. I assume that's why my HD still has space taken up where folders are no longer there. I've got about 30GB of spare room on my primary drive, which should be enough for me to grab everything vital.

I'll check out that program. I appreciate your help!

:thumbsup:

 

[Avalon]

And we have a dead drive. I had to reboot, and no longer could I get past the boot screen. It just tells me it can't find any drives connected to my IDE channel 😛

Plus, you can hear a lovely grinding sound from the head of the drive. The thing is toast. This sucks. lol.

Anyone know of any good deals (rebates are fine) for a 160GB or 200GB drive? PATA or SATA, doesn't matter.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

$143 for this 320GB WD aint a bad deal. Newegg Although Tiger Direct has some cheap ATA-100 drives, I just cant reccommend them. Getting rebates is just too much of a bvitch!. (I put out 7 rebates). Got the last check 1 year, 4 months, at 14 days later. Obviously, they aren't that great at keeping their rebate promises.

 

[Avalon]

I notice Newegg claims that drive you linked to, and many other newer Maxtor drives, come with a 3 year warranty, even though it's an OEM part. I thought OEM warranties were only one year, or has this finally changed?

 

[V00D00]

If it says 3, then it's 3. I like to stick with seagate's 5yr though.