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30GB Maxtor..bios detects the drive but volume doesnt exist even when I run ERD commander...in short whatever I do, master, slave, single, multi, after bios its not detected anywhere, dos, xp, 2k etc..after initial start...I get the message saying hard drive fail.
ps: This HD is tried on two other systems but no luck.
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Hard Drive Fail
#2 Guest_crabby1_*
Posted 09 January 2006 - 06:20 AM
QUOTE(zagman @ Jan 9 2006, 03:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
30GB Maxtor..bios detects the drive but volume doesnt exist even when I run ERD commander...in short whatever I do, master, slave, single, multi, after bios its not detected anywhere, dos, xp, 2k etc..after initial start...I get the message saying hard drive fail.
ps: This HD is tried on two other systems but no luck.
ps: This HD is tried on two other systems but no luck.
The first thing I try is to boot to a dos prompt and run fdisk. If there is some other o/s on the hard drive it will show as unknown, and you can then delete the partition and create a new partition as you desire.
If nothing is shown by fdisk, then you probably have a scrap disk
Good luck
#3 Guest_zagman_*
Posted 10 January 2006 - 05:07 AM
There should be a way if all cylinders etc are getting detected by bios. It seems mbr is corrupted but I can't take any chance to lose any data on it. I am surprised that super recovery program like winternals erd commander cant detect it as well...hmm.
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