Re: Disks unreadable in XP but spinrite data recovery shows no errors

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:30:22 -0700, Andrew E. <eckrichco@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> For maxtor,dwnload powermax from mators home page,run the DOS
> utility and chk results.You might/should boot to xp cd,recovery,press enter
> for password,then type:DiskPart In DiskPart,locate the letters for each hd,
> then press Esc Key,then type:CHKDSK D: /R D: being one of the drives,repair
> will attempt to repair bad sectors and clean up the drive.Recovery can also
> copy files,and list files per drive,chk articles #307654 307973 and 314058
>

Trying this for the first drive (80Gb Maxtor), DiskPart does not
display a drive letter. It shows:

76317 MB Disk 0 at Id2 on bus 0 on Ultra [MBR]
-: Partition1 [Dynamic Volume] 76317MB (0Mb Free)

(The -: is where the drive letter should have been. For example the
another drive is listed as:

D: Partition1 (SCSI_1Gb) [FAT32] 1041Mb (678Mb Free)

Does this give any clues to the state of the disk?
.



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