I have a Maxtor HDD which has recently given me "disk read error" whenever i boot up. It then tells me to press ctrl+alt+del but repeats the cycle. Recently i plugged in an old quantum HDD (running on win98) which had some problems as a slave with my Maxtor as the master. I got into WinXP and used the Admin tools to reformat the old quantum HDD. Now the quantum HDD is running but my Maxtor isnt! Before formating the Quantum i had some issues figuring out which jumpers settings were master, slave and cs so i turned the power off quite a few times w/out shutting down properly. i only did this when the Quantum was in master setting tho.
I tried setting up the Maxtor as a slave on another computer but i still get "disk read error".
Whats happened to my Maxtor HD? Is it a windows version problem cos of the 2 HDs having diffrent OS's? Is there a way to get all my data back from the Maxtor like a recovery program. I heard of one called GetDataBack but im not too confident it will help.
Does anybody have any suggestions for recovery programs or has anybody had this problem before?
Thanks
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Jump to PostTry chksdk c: in the recovery console (assuming that you use Windows XP an it's installed on the c: partition).
Michael
Jump to PostHi Drewfort
Ok make sure that the drive withe the boot problem is the master. for this excersise remove your good drive or just uplug the power to it.
Insert your XP disk and boot from the disk
Select recovery console
follow the promts until you are in …
Jump to PostI'd say that something zxnrbled the boot sector on your master drive.
You need to change a BIOS setting:
Boot CD, then C drive.
Put the Windows install CD in and boot. It will then reinstall Windows and fix that.
Warning: If it can't fix the …
Jump to PostHi!
Happend to me twice, none of the above and similar metods worked. The way to fix it was copy everything off the drive (use free Unstoppable Copier), format the drive, copy everything back. It is not nice and time consuming but works.
Good luckPeter
Jump to PostCheck out SpinRite at http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
They have an excellent video on what the software can do.
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