Hard Drive Help needed.

[BigVal]

I have a maxtor 120gb hdd connected to a raid card. It is the slave drive.

My master drive with OS(XP pro) installed on it is also on Raid card.

Booted as a scsi drive in bios.

Recently I got an error on the 120gb. Something about cyclic redundancy check. Can't remember 100%. Anyway I ignored it as everything seemed fine.

Now I wake up to find my system had rebooted and recovered from a serious error???
I can find the 120GB drive but it shows 0bytes free 0bytes used.

When I click on it in my computer it says D: is not accessible. The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.

I am not too bothered about the contents. More concerned about having to buy a new HDD.

Anyway I can fix it? Without the use of a floppy? I can't seem to get a floppy drive to work on my system.

Also I might as well rescue some of the files if the process is quick and simple.

Any ideas?

[Qube]

I have a maxtor 120gb hdd connected to a raid card. It is the slave drive.

My master drive with OS(XP pro) installed on it is also on Raid card.

Booted as a scsi drive in bios.

Recently I got an error on the 120gb. Something about cyclic redundancy check. Can't remember 100%. Anyway I ignored it as everything seemed fine.

Now I wake up to find my system had rebooted and recovered from a serious error???
I can find the 120GB drive but it shows 0bytes free 0bytes used.

When I click on it in my computer it says D: is not accessible. The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable.

I am not too bothered about the contents. More concerned about having to buy a new HDD.

Anyway I can fix it? Without the use of a floppy? I can't seem to get a floppy drive to work on my system.

Also I might as well rescue some of the files if the process is quick and simple.

Any ideas?

:) You can see what condition your HD is in by following these steps

1)Right click on the start button , Select properties
2)Click customize , Then Advanced
3)Scroll down to System admin tools , select Display on the all programs menu and the start menu
4)Click ok, And Ok again
5)Click the start button and under control panel , click on system admin tools, select computer management, Double click Disk management, This will show you what condition your hard drives are in.
6)Right click on the drive and select explore to see if you can access the files
7)You Can reformat the hard drive.
8)If the hardrive is not showing there must be a fault, Reboot and check your bios

[Zedy]

As it is on a raid card the drive will be invisible in your bios.
Download the diagnostics from Maxtor website and connect the hard drive to one of the ide ports on mobo, you will then be able to run the diagnostics on it to ascertain state of drive.
The diagnostics run from floppy so you will need to fix that problem first, else download cd based diagnostics if they have them.

[BigVal]

Got in touch with maxtor and checked warranty. Has 5 months left!!!

Replacement on its way.

This is the second time in a year I have had to return a drive to them :(

Bought myself a Samsung now. Hope they are more reliable

[Jumpman23]

GGGGGreat. This is NOT the news I wanna read. I just bought a Maxtor 200 gig ATA/133 Hard Drive and I dont wanna risk magically losing all my data one day.:saywhat:

[nightheart]

GGGGGreat. This is NOT the news I wanna read. I just bought a Maxtor 200 gig ATA/133 Hard Drive and I dont wanna risk magically losing all my data one day.:saywhat:All drives die sooner or later, and maxtor drives are pretty reliable, from what i've seen. It doesn't matter what brand it is, someone has had nothing but problems with them. Maxtor's warranty program is top notch too, anyone that'll send a replacement before you even return the bum drive is ok with me.

Also there are no CD diagnostic programs on maxtor's site. Their drive testing program is floppy only, unless you burn it to a cdr, but you must put it on a floppy first.

[Mr Snatcher]

All drives die sooner or later.
very true, but there life span has been on average 2 years, if that. I have 2 dead ones here that out of warranty ( 60 and 40gb) replaced them with seagates, since they have been pretty reliable for me.

[Neo]

cyclic redundancy check

(algorithm)

Definition: (1) A method to detect and correct errors by adding bits derived from a block or string of bits to the block. (2) An algorithm to compute bits characteristic of a block based on the algebra of polynomials over the integers, modulo 2. (3) The characteristic bits of a block

[nightheart]

very true, but there life span has been on average 2 years, if that. I have 2 dead ones here that out of warranty ( 60 and 40gb) replaced them with seagates, since they have been pretty reliable for me.The bigger the drive, the quicker it dies, too. All major manufactors have dropped their warranty's to 1 instead of 3 for that reason. I have an 7 or 8 year old 6.4 maxtor that still works, while my one 80 has started clicking today (about 2 1/2 yrs old). The other 80 maxtor i have, i bought used over 3 years ago, and it's still humming along, fine. I've had terrible luck with WD myself, had quite a few of them croak on me in a matter of months, and sometimes weeks. my 2 cents worth

[PhilEnfield]

cyclic redundancy check

(algorithm)

Definition: (1) A method to detect and correct errors by adding bits derived from a block or string of bits to the block. (2) An algorithm to compute bits characteristic of a block based on the algebra of polynomials over the integers, modulo 2. (3) The characteristic bits of a blockOr ..... in English Fu**ing Annoying Read Error :D

[Mr Snatcher]

The bigger the drive, the quicker it dies, too. All major manufactors have dropped their warranty's to 1 instead of 3 for that reason. I have an 7 or 8 year old 6.4 maxtor that still works, while my one 80 has started clicking today (about 2 1/2 yrs old). The other 80 maxtor i have, i bought used over 3 years ago, and it's still humming along, fine. I've had terrible luck with WD myself, had quite a few of them croak on me in a matter of months, and sometimes weeks. my 2 cents worth
Totally agree, The bigger the drive, the faster it will die.