Re: Failure to recognize new 160 GB SATA HD


"Vlad Katkov" <web.terrain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello, I recently bought a Maxtor 160 GB SATAII hard drive. It's been
a week since I got it and I was using it happily as a storage drive. I
have and use a 60 GB IDE drive as my master (paritioned into two parts,
C: and D:) on which I run Windows XP SP2.
Recently my computer just suddenly crashed. When I began to reboot it,
it took a full two minutes to get from the Windows Boot Shell menu to
the actual login screen. Once I do in fact login, I try to go to my
SATA drive (E:) but I get the error message:

E:\ is not accessible.
Incorrect function.

What confuses me even more is that I can see the drive in My Computer,
but it does not show up in the Disk Management section of the Computer
Management window (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Comp.
Management).
I just find it strange that the computer does not recognize the drive,
even though It's been there for a while now.
Also, whenever I unplug the SATA hd and boot, the boot up process is
very quick and I don't get any errors.
Has anyone encountered this before or has any information that can help
me? Very much appreciated.

Sounds suspiciously like the drive has suffered a head-crash; a friend of
mine had the same problem just recently due to a power-failure while the
disk was being accessed. This doesn't happen *quite* so often nowadays, but
still..

Try to listen to the HD while you're booting from it; if there's a repeated
"ticking" sound then it's likely that you have - at best - some
bad/unreadable sectors, at worst a knackered HD :-/

You can try to format, but if it's a physical problem then there's not a lot
to do...

--
Chris



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