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| Thread ID: 50062 | 2004-10-09 03:43:00 | Is this hard drive dead? | brig (1359) | Press F1 |
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| 279393 | 2004-10-09 06:43:00 | Unlikely to be user induced.... That's your story, and you should stick to it. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 279394 | 2004-10-09 07:12:00 | ;) | brig (1359) | ||
| 279395 | 2004-10-10 12:12:00 | If you go to the Maxtor Web site you can download "Power Max" which fits on to a bootable floppy. Disable the offending drive in the Bios. Boot with "Power Max" and do a low level format.( Power Max will see the drive even if it is disabled.) The low level format takes about 1 hour per 10gig, so yours will take 4-5 hours to do. After this the drive will partition & format in the normal way. Remember to re-enable it in the Bios. I have recovered several drives that had been "tossed" in the bin, by using Power Max. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 279396 | 2004-10-10 20:24:00 | Thanks for the suggestion Mzee. I had a look at the Maxtor website and the PowerMax tool. I'll remember for the future. Seagate have what I thinks is a similar utility, the Seatool, that I tried with only negative results. The problem is most likely to be, as godfather says above, a physical short in the components. The bios can't see the offending drive, and all connections to it have been tested by swapping it for a known working drive - several times. An interesting development is that Seagate have a facility on their Support site. By entering the product and serial numbers the warranty status is given. My dead drive is still under warranty until Aug 2005! brig |
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