My secondary hard drive is corrupted. I can't read any data off the drive, and attempting to modify its contents, such as emptying the recycle bin, causes my computer to restart. When I open up the drive in My Computer, everything is jargon and it says the drive is like 189mb, when it's really 120GB. I can't run check disk on it from windows, and when it tries to run check disk at startup, it crashes the computer. There was never any clicking, it's a brand new drive that I installed only about 3 months ago just to hold my music files. I rarely use it for anything else, so it's never undergone intense use. Any suggestions or ideas on what might be wrong or how to fix it would be appreciated.
I'm running Windows XP SP2 on an Athlon 3200+ with an Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo. Drive is a Maxtor 120GB drive, 7200 RPM with 8mb cache. It's hooked up as the primary slave. Primary harddrive is the master. I have two optical drives on the secondary channel. BIOS detects drive correctly, jumper pins on the drives are set correctly and the cable is connected correctly. I think the hard drive may be formatted under FAT32...I guess I forgot to change it to NTFS when I installed it.
I'm running Windows XP SP2 on an Athlon 3200+ with an Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo. Drive is a Maxtor 120GB drive, 7200 RPM with 8mb cache. It's hooked up as the primary slave. Primary harddrive is the master. I have two optical drives on the secondary channel. BIOS detects drive correctly, jumper pins on the drives are set correctly and the cable is connected correctly. I think the hard drive may be formatted under FAT32...I guess I forgot to change it to NTFS when I installed it.