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| apri_peel |
anyone here who knows anything about computer hard drives and hardware and all that junk?
i'm desperate and pissed off, so until i can get a hold of maxtor on monday maybe someone knows of a simple way to fix my piece of of a hdd
here's the problem:
i have 2 hdds. both maxtor. 1 is primary where the OS is and the other one is secondary for storage. up until this afternoon, everything worked fine. then, out of nowhere, i wasnt able to access some folders on the storage drive. the error msg said 'the file or directory is corrupt and unaccesable' so i tried to reboot, and couldnt with the storage drive plugged in. the message i get is 'unable to boot OS. may be due to a virus' or something like that.
i ran a maxtor diagnostic. it said it found errors and fixed them. tried running partition magic diagnostic, its taking too long, will do it overnight.
so yeah, if i unplug the storage drive, everything works fine, except im missing 200gb
anyone with any tips and suggestions, please feel free
btw, i had this problem before, fixed it by wiping everything off the drive. i could do it this time, but i wanna make sure the problem doesnt come back 2 months later |
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| AquaYak |
| maxtor is notorious fOR bad HDs |
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| apri_peel |
| quote: | Originally posted by AquaYak
maxtor is notorious fOR bad HDs |
*sigh*
well, my western digital is fcked up too and has been collecting dust for a while now :toothless |
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| kanadianiceman |
unable to boot to OS may also be caused by the computers motherboard (main board) trying to start up an operating system from your storage drive, that is set as the first boot device.
this MAY be the case. but since you shouldnt have changed any settings then MAYBE your drive is okay
i would doublecheck your bios settings and make sure that it is booting from your OS maxtor drive not your 200GB drive.
if any of your friends has an external enclosure.
you could hook up the drive to your computer via firewire or USB 2.0. and see if the drive is toast that way.
I backup all my data to an external enclosure. makes things soooo much easier when transfering any files or in case something bad happens. |
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| apri_peel |
| quote: | Originally posted by kanadianiceman
unable to boot to OS may also be caused by the computers motherboard (main board) trying to start up an operating system from your storage drive, that is set as the first boot device.
this MAY be the case. but since you shouldnt have changed any settings then MAYBE your drive is okay
i would doublecheck your bios settings and make sure that it is booting from your OS maxtor drive not your 200GB drive. |
the first time this happened, the problem was exactly because of this. i accidently mixed up secondary and primary drives.
but i dont see how this is the case now because since everything was fixed (or i think it was anyways). i checked bios, everything is set up the way its supposed to be, in the bootable devices part, i have the primary drive with the OS selected
im just talking to mark right now, he suggested running fixboot. and he had the same problem too but never got it fixed :(
gonna try to work on the problem tomorrow, cant get too upset before seeing ferry :)
btw, thank you all for the suggestions |
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