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napsterhaven

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OK, something is up with my new 200gig maxtor. When I start windows it reconises the hard drive, yet when I go to click on it, im told the drive needs to be formated? i have been using the drive for the last month or so. Its detected in the system Bio, and Windows both. Device manager says its working properly. I havent been hearing any unusal noises comming from it at all. I tried to format and reinstall onto my 40gig drive I use for system and games and still have the same problem. Can anyone please recommend a hard drive data salvage program. Please help. I have aprox 100Gigs of data on this drive that would take months to replace.
 
from what I hear its best to have partitions under 137gbs or whatever, because after that the data could start to get corrupted (maybe what happened to you?)

maybe you can use partition magic and split the rest of the drive and see if that helps any.
 
Sin, I have a couple WD 200GB drives with one partition (200GB) and I've never experienced any type of data loss.

Napster, hearing clicking noises is self explanitory. I myself always stays away from Maxtor drives as I've always had bad experiences with them. Damn things always died on me.

Western digitals has never failed on me yet, but really its all user experience. EG: Some people buys nothing other than Maxtors, because WD always dies on them. ;)
 
Maxtor has excellent drive utilities on their website for determining if your hard drive is bad. I would download and run those.

As far as the Maxtor/Western Digital debate, I have both Maxtor and Western Digital drives among my flock, all I can say is that Maxtor is a lot quieter, although Western Digital has the FDB now, so it's basically a wash. Hard drives are more like commodities now, as long as they have the same specs, most drives will perform within 5% of the next brand, all things being equal. Why do you think they push the rebates so hard?
 
Originally posted by Buckus
Maxtor has excellent drive utilities on their website for determining if your hard drive is bad. I would download and run those.
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Be careful with the drive testing utilities. Outside factors may cause the drive to fail a test, when infact the drive is fine.
 
Thanks for the help, but I havent recieved the name of a good free program. Anyone have any suggestions?
 
Originally posted by Y2K SE
Be careful with the drive testing utilities. Outside factors may cause the drive to fail a test, when infact the drive is fine.
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indeed, power and cables coming to mind immediately

as far as clicking goes, a HDD intializing or parking the head will click
also whenever there is a read\write error it will recailbrate
(which happens fairly regularly at modern speeds and areal density under normal operation)

cable issues can cause a recalibration because of a read\write error, intermittent power can cause the head to park then reintialize and recalibrate, so ruling those out is important

when a drive has a known good cables, and power,
and then it enters into a continous loop of recalibaration clicks, that is a very bad sign

of course you should already have backup :p
but grab whatever hasnt been since the last backup quickly (if possible)

and to answer your question :p
File Scavenger for recovery
Disk Patch for repair
and
Corrupted Files!? to start you on the troubleshooting process of exactly what caused the corruption in the first place ;)
 
Im running file scavenger and it is finding pretty much all the files on the hard drive. I say pretty much cause I really cant remember all that was on there. Its at 82% and climbing. God I hope I dont screw something up, its gonna take months to replace all the files I had on there If i cant resurect the drive.
 
from what I gather your partition was simply corrupted
all the data should be intact, and infact the partition and filesystem repairable
however, whithout identifiyng what it was that initailly caused this
its more than likely it will happen again
being aware of the potential areas that can cause this is the first step, then you can start to eliminate them
the Corrupted Files!? link has them in rough order of probability
(if your overclocked, that of course jumps system timing up a few)
so review that after you rescue, then decide if the investment is worth it for 3rd party repair, of if a simple reformat is good enough for now

treat it as a learning experience,
I bet your backup regimen changes :p
 
Yea, im deffinatly gonna buy that dvd burner I been debating on to back up my mp3s and programs. Im gonna go over the hd now and see if I can find any new problems. I still cant get the drive to open, so off i go. I will report any new situations I come upon.
 
Ok, I just finished running powermax/maxblast 3 times and it appears the disk has errors and is failing. So RMA here I come. Im gonna purchace a license for File Scavenger and hope fully I will be back up and running at full throttle in a month or so. =(
 
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