dead drive

[mikhail]

Whilst using win xp defrag on my 14 month old 60gb maxtor diamondmax 9 hard
drive it decides to die half way through, cant boot back to lilo boot
manager let alone windows or linux, all work is backed up so not too fussed
about reinstalling again plus I wanted a nice new 36gb sata raptor anyway
which I now have.
Still trying to get the maxtor to respond to something however with no luck.
Have run maxtors powermax tests with no joy (just coded errors that mean
nothing according to maxtors website) so I ran the low level format which
took about 6 hours but still have the same problems.
Am I right in thinking that when a hard drive arrives from new it is in this
low level state or not?
The drive is seen in bios correctly but when I use a win 98 floppy and fdisk
I am told the are no fixed disks present.
Is it worth trying with this drive or should I send it to its grave.

 

[V W Wall]

Whilst using win xp defrag on my 14 month old 60gb maxtor diamondmax 9 hard
drive it decides to die half way through, cant boot back to lilo boot
manager let alone windows or linux, all work is backed up so not too fussed
about reinstalling again plus I wanted a nice new 36gb sata raptor anyway
which I now have.
Still trying to get the maxtor to respond to something however with no luck.
Have run maxtors powermax tests with no joy (just coded errors that mean
nothing according to maxtors website) so I ran the low level format which
took about 6 hours but still have the same problems.
Am I right in thinking that when a hard drive arrives from new it is in this
low level state or not?
The drive is seen in bios correctly but when I use a win 98 floppy and fdisk
I am told the are no fixed disks present.
Is it worth trying with this drive or should I send it to its grave.

Have a look at:

http://www.aefdisk.com/

There's a free version that might help.

Virg Wall

 

[kony]

Whilst using win xp defrag on my 14 month old 60gb maxtor diamondmax 9 hard
drive it decides to die half way through, cant boot back to lilo boot
manager let alone windows or linux, all work is backed up so not too fussed
about reinstalling again plus I wanted a nice new 36gb sata raptor anyway
which I now have.
Still trying to get the maxtor to respond to something however with no luck.
Have run maxtors powermax tests with no joy (just coded errors that mean
nothing according to maxtors website) so I ran the low level format which
took about 6 hours but still have the same problems.
Am I right in thinking that when a hard drive arrives from new it is in this
low level state or not?
The drive is seen in bios correctly but when I use a win 98 floppy and fdisk
I am told the are no fixed disks present.
Is it worth trying with this drive or should I send it to its grave.

1) A drive has a problem

2) You run manufacturer's diagnostics

3) Diagnostics declare an error

4) Drive is retired, returned to Maxtor for warranty replacement if
possible

5) There is no good advice to reuse it, low-level format or otherwise
it has a problem or else you'd never be messing with it at this point.