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| Thread ID: 65054 | 2006-01-05 23:06:00 | Hard Drive corrupted and became unformated | lightfoot (39) | Press F1 |
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| 418608 | 2006-01-05 23:06:00 | Seagate 250 GB problem I have recently bought a Seagate hard drive from Supercheappc . I have partitioned it to 4 (65G, 65G, 95G, remain about 10G respectively) partitions and used the first two . However, when I tried to transfer some files to the third partition the computer said the is a disk error run chkdsk . I restarted my computer and then the Seagete hard drive only showed two partitions and all the partitions are unformated, thus all the data were lost . I am running windows 2000 with service pack 4 . Please advise the possible cause and how to correct this . Thanks . |
lightfoot (39) | ||
| 418609 | 2006-01-05 23:11:00 | Take it back and get it replaced, or get a refund, and go to another shop. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 418610 | 2006-01-05 23:31:00 | take it back and get a maxtor :) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 418611 | 2006-01-05 23:35:00 | So is this a hard drive problem? Can I have some advice on what caused this? Thanks. | lightfoot (39) | ||
| 418612 | 2006-01-05 23:52:00 | take it back and get a maxtor :)Are you being smart? So is this a hard drive problem? Can I have some advice on what caused this? Yes, it is likely to be a hard drive problem and the cause could be anything from a faulty batch to physical mistreatment of it . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 418613 | 2006-01-05 23:56:00 | You could try getting a live Linux CD and see if Linux can read any data off it. | tony_young480 (4942) | ||
| 418614 | 2006-01-05 23:56:00 | It is a brand new crive and only a few weeks old? I have never tried Linux. Where to get the Linux CD? Thanks. | lightfoot (39) | ||
| 418615 | 2006-01-05 23:56:00 | Good luck taking it back to Supercheap. They love selling stuff but if it goes wrong..................... | paulw (1826) | ||
| 418616 | 2006-01-05 23:59:00 | firstly run chkdsk and see what it reports. 2nd run seagate seatools and it will tell if any problems with drive. this sort of thing can happen if there was a fault in the partitioning, driver problems, heat problems, virus's and i've even had some hardrive tools cause this. test the drive before replaceing it as there may be nothing wrong with it. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 418617 | 2006-01-06 00:06:00 | Are you being smart? Not really . . . . . I like maxtor, never had problems with them . . . yet :horrified Maybe there is a problem with the drive being too big and causing problems with the controller/driver??? I did a defrag (on my old seagate drive) and when it was finished everything seemed fine - until I rebooted, when windows reported the drive completely empty . I ran File Scavenger and manager to rescue most of my stuff . Probably better to try something like that before you get chkdsk to play around with it . . . |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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