Re: Parameter is incorrect

Yes, they normally last longer but you can never tell.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"G. Vaught" wrote:
| Thanks Dave for responding. After I posted this message, my drive went
from
| bad to worse.
|
| I did check the drive with a Maxtor utility and it indicated the drive was
| failing.
|
| I was able to use another hd and load Win2K and then connect both my hd's
| and recover most of my data. Of course, the one drive partition I wanted
to
| get to most I could not. I get "inline page operation" message now. I did
| get four years use out of it. The data I lost can be recovered through
other
| means, it's just a time consuming process.
|
| It's funny I can see the drive through My Computer. I can see it when I
look
| under Admin Tools it reports as Healthy(Active) with the full partition
size
| 28GB, but the formatting type is blank. When I look at the drives under
the
| Disk Fragmenter it does not show. It's like the partition has been wiped
| clean. Well, another lesson learned, make your "round tuits" the
priority.
|
| Of course, this failure gives me an excuse to go buy a new computer as
this
| one is a 400 Mhz, and I still have my laptop, so I am not totally dead in
| the water


.

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