Printing fails after surge

[w_tom]

If a surge damged the partition table, then the entire table is
unreadable. If a surge physically destroyed those tables, then all
tables are unreadable AND disk drive hardware is damaged. Maybe a
surge damaged something else which then caused computer to corrupt the
disk drive. But I see no facts that say a surge even existed let alone
attacked the disk drive. Corrupted parameters even in the CMOS are a
far more likely reason for that damage.

The table is changed - not damaged or destroyed. If the table were
damaged, then all partition entries would be corrupted. How would a
surge pass through disk drive computer electronics, leave them
undamaged, then selectively modify only some data on drive in that
table? The disk drive exhibits no indication of surge damage. It
suggests the partition table has been selectively corrupted.

Go to www.maxtor.com and enter that model number for more information
and diagnostics.

 

[Bob]

I quote from my first response: "You must check it with the diagnostic
program made available on the disk manufacturer's home site."

Hi I just went and downloaded the util from Maxtor. It is showing no
errors at all on that drive.

Partition Magic's repair ability is limited to fixing some obvious
errors such as glaringly incorrect sector numbers.

Right, clearly we are not dealing with a damaged partition table here
after all.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi I just went and downloaded the util from Maxtor. It is showing no
errors at all on that drive.

Right, clearly we are not dealing with a damaged partition table here
after all.

I don't see how you can reach this conclusion. The Maxtor
diagnostic tool checks if your hard disk functions as it should
and if it has any flaws. It does not check your file system -
chkdsk.exe does. All you now know is that your hard disk is
physically intact. It may still have logical flaws.

 

[Bob]

I don't see how you can reach this conclusion.

Because, as per the OP in this thread, if my partition table was
damaged, I could not boot my computer!

The Maxtor

diagnostic tool checks if your hard disk functions as it should
and if it has any flaws. It does not check your file system -
chkdsk.exe does.

Right, and chkdsk typically finds no flaws either. I run it all the time.

All you now know is that your hard disk is

physically intact. It may still have logical flaws.

I think it does. Time to run PM. You know, I have formatted that F:
partition and it still comes back 2.5 GB used. I think I want to use PM
to delete that partition.