Re: I've Lost a SATA drive in XP ....Help?

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Download the MaxBlast utility from Maxtor site. Make the floppy or CD.
Boot to the floppy or CD and run the tests.

Woody

"Mystical" <Mystica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d8026482e0ed47f989682@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi, what a mess! long story short, I Raid 0'd two new Maxtor 120GB
> drives. About a week later whilst doing some video work a BSD appeared
> and no amount of effort brough the system back to life. So i re
> formated in the raid bios and made two JBODS instead...for safety!!!!!!
>
> Again, a week later whist rendering a big video file XP reported with a
> yellow exclamation mark that a possible hardware failure had resulted
> and couldnt write all data to disk 1 (my D Drive).
>
> On my computer the drive is shown as 0 bytes used, file system RAW.
> If i click on the drive it reports........" D not accessible, more data
> is available"
>
> The drive is NOT listed in disk managemnt so i cant do anything to it.
>
> My concern is that this is second failure, one for Raid 0 and now JBOD.
> I cant seem to test the drive because Maxtor do not support testing with
> powermax on an NVIDA nforce 4 chipset.
>
> Is there a solution? Ive lost confidence in saving DATA to this drive
> now, i suppose i could do a low level formate in raid set up on boot,
> but will this fix it...this is my second go at this.
>
> Could it be that they are getting too hot, there is only 1/2" separating
> them.
>
> Does anyone know how to test it with a third party software?
>
> Or should i jus t send it back and wait 6 weeks for a no fault found
> responce!
>
> Thanks in advance
> Martin
>
> My system is
> Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9
> Athlon 64/3000
> 512MB twinmoss ram
> XP pro SP2
>


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