re: 1720 Hard Drive Failure, Can't Boot
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 5:12 pm
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Posted by Jeff
(8 messages posted)
All,
Here’s is my final follow up and resolution to my problem. Again, thank you all for
your comments and suggestions.
I discovered the faulty drive is a Maxtor, and obtain the PowerMax software from
Maxtor, and it confirmed the drive is damaged and failing. I then proceeded with
installing my new Maxtor drive (cable-select, formatted and installed WindowsXP),
then added the faulty drive to the second connector on the ribbon cable. I then ran
Norton utilities Disk Doctor against the faulty drive, and found/fixed several errors.
At this point, I didn’t care what they were because this was a last-ditch effort.
Nevertheless, the drive mounted and I was actually able to read/write, and boot from
it again. I made a complete transition over to the new drive, and will use the faulty
one in a test machine I have.
In addition to the lesson of backing up, this experience confirmed for me that it’s
better to fix a faulty drive from another disk (if possible). After all, if you lose
your trust in the faulty drives integrity, and you plan on getting a new one, then
you avoid spinning your wheels with boot disc issues . Rather get the machine up
and running with your new drive, then try and resurrect the old one.
Again, best to all, thanks,
JeffTronics
On Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 1:43 am, JeffTronics wrote:
>I want to thank all of you for the replies. They are creative.
>
>Because I'm nervous about the Drive's integrity, I purchased a New Maxtor Diamond
>Plus ATA/133 80Gig Internal Drive. My strategy (which I have begun) involves removing
>the old drive as is, installing the new drive as a Master. Then, I’ll put the old
>drive back in as a slave, and run utilities from the Master drive, and see what
repairs
>I can make on it. The reason for this strategy is to get the machine back up and
>running, with a new drive too. Also, this will make the boot issues moot.
>
>Can anyone recommend some good utilities for Hard Disk recovery. Of course this
implies
>Data recovery too, but I’m looking for utilities that will resurrect the drive itself.
>I’ll look on Maxtor’s site because the old drive happens to be a Maxtor too.
>
>I appreciate the tip about getting the drive cold. I actually thought heating it
>up would be interesting too. I thought perhaps the drive mechanism is too cold.
>
>Best to all,
>
>JeffTronics
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