What is causing this hard drive problem???

[overclock]

I have a problem with a 2 month old Maxtor 60 gig 7200 RPM hard drive. Of course I like to partition the drive out into several partitions. The only problem is that when it is setup as 2 partitions or more I get an error when I run Norton Disk Doctor (Windows and DOS versions). It says there is partition table and asks if I would like to reconstruct it. When I say ?Yes? it loses everything but the C: and D: partitions. Why?
Is it the:
a. Maxblast utility?
b. Improper use of FDISK?
c. Windows Me OS?
d. Bad Hard Drive?
e. Norton Disk Doctor?

Yes it happens when I use either the Maxblast software or manually do in DOS with FDISK? Weird! Scandisk does not pick up any problems, only Norton. I have lost data on this drive because I told Norton to fix it. (Please no flaming.)

When I format the drive as one huge 60 gig drive (no partitions) there are no problems reported. I even did a DOS level format c: (the long version, not /q). I have found that a 60 gig drive is too large for me. I prefer my 30 gig IBM drive. So I would like to sell the drive but I don?t want to sell a piece of junk. Does it need to be RMA?d?

Thanks!

 

[overclock]

Anyone, anyone?

 

[grimzod]

Dump Windows ME and test it with Windows 98SE. ME is a pile of garbage and i'd start there by nixing it.

98SE is old but its not known for that type of error.

Oh, and don't use NORTON to do that anymore. Its seeing a problem that might not exist. NORTOn just might be freaking about something that isn't a problem. Have you looked at SYmantec's site for FAQs regarding this problem?

good luck

 

[crudas]

I don't think there is anything wrong with your drive. Try updating Disk Doctor with LiveUpdate from Symantec. Also, Windows and DOS have problems if extra drives are created on Primary partitions rather than in and extended partition as a logical drive.

Don't let Disk Doctor fix partition errors...

 

[overclock]

Go here to see what Symantec has to say. I did a search as suggested above and found the article. It says that sometimes Disk Doctor is smoking crack. They say to use GDISK (included with Systemworks) to partition a hard drive. I will try that.

As for Windows Me vs. Windows 98...they all have their problems. I would go to XP but the price is steep. I would rather have a DVD player that plays mp3's. Now that I know it is not the drive I am relieved!