External Harddrive

[Rich]

Hi

I was given a external harddrive case a few months ago and popped in a
250 Gb harddrive. I'm now getting IO errors on it.

Before I bin it I want to try and fdisk / format and hopefully get a
few more months out of it.

The problem is that non of my motherboards support HD as big as 250.
Any way I can fdisk and format it from within windows? Normally I
would just drop into DOS and run fdisk.exe and format.exe

Thanks.

Rich

 

[old jon]

It`s always worth D\loading the drive makers test tools to run on a drive to
test its integrity. What OS ?. ..J

 

[Rich]

It`s always worth D\loading the drive makers test tools to run on a drive to
test its integrity. What OS ?. ..J

Done a google but can't seem to see any Maxtor test tools, unless I'm
blind that it.

Using XP 64 bit at the moment, although so have standard XP on my
laptop and Windows 2000 on my fileserver.

Thanks.

Rich

 

[Noozer]

Done a google but can't seem to see any Maxtor test tools, unless I'm
blind that it.

Yup... Blind. Go to Maxtor.com and download the tools. You will most likely
have to mount the drive on an internal IDE cable for testing though.

 

[Shep©]

Done a google but can't seem to see any Maxtor test tools, unless I'm
blind that it.

http://tinyurl.com/5hksx

or for a burnable bootable CD ISO,
http://tinyurl.com/3t2yk

Using XP 64 bit at the moment, although so have standard XP on my
laptop and Windows 2000 on my fileserver.

Thanks.

Rich

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[old jon]

There you are Rich. Shep`s come up with the goods for you. Keep trying..J

 

[Shep©]

There you are Rich. Shep`s come up with the goods for you. Keep trying..J

I've found Powermax to be an invaluable tool in my PC diagnostic kit
on any make of drive

I keep meaning to add it to my own Win98 bootable ISO,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/bootd.zip
but I keep it on a cd anyway and my ISO contains Cdrom support so I
haven't bothered.



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[Bob]

Using XP 64 bit at the moment

I believe that XP Pro requires SP2 to support your s50GB drive. I know
nothing about XP Home other than to avoid it like the plague.


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[Rich]

I've found Powermax to be an invaluable tool in my PC diagnostic kit
on any make of drive

Thanks guys. All working now - shame I lost 200 Gb in the process.
At least it'll learn me to make backups.

Rich