Ok, I spent quite a while on here doing searches, and nobody seemed to have my exact problem, and the ones that were close, the threads seemed to get abandoned right before the solution. Anyway... My dad gave me a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 200Gb (6Y200P0) hard drive the other day, and told me it was bad. He said it was fine until he cleaned the dust out of his case with compressed air, and it hasn't worked since. So, I put it in my computer, and Windows found it right away, and installed it and everything. But when I open "My Computer", it's not there. It shows up in the BIOS, and when the BIOS posts at boot, it shows 2 IDE HDDs. When I go to Disk Manager, it doesn't show the new hard drive, but it leaves a place for it. In other words, I have Drive 0 (orig HDD) and Drives 2-5 (Card readers) then CD-ROM 0 and 1. There is no Drive 1 shown. If I remove the bad HDD, I have Drives 0 (orig HDD) and 1-4 (Card readers) shown and CD-ROMs 0-1. I hope you guys can understand what I'm saying, kinda hard to explain. Also, I can get a full S.M.A.R.T. report off of this drive and see it's temperature in Speedfan. I tried to download and run MaxBlast 4, but all it did is severly bog my system. I have a bootable CD with MaxBlast 3 on it, but I haven't tried that yet. My question is, is this hard drive gone for good? What can I try? Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Scott *Edit*: Forgot to add - I tried setting the jumpers both to Slave and Cable Select, and it made no difference.
go to Run > type cmd> chkdsk /r > press y when prompted and restart your computer! Also SMART report will tell everything about it!
Karan- Thanks for the quick reply... I ran the disk check, but it checked the C: drive. Since the new drive doesn't have a letter assigned to it, I don't know how to make it check that drive. Also, the SMART reports say that this "bad" drive is actually more fit than my "good" drive! I tried the MaxBlast boot disk, and that didn't help either. I have also dropped my system bus back to stock speed, in case my OC was affecting the drive, but that made no difference. I'm lost... Scott
It is detected in the BIOS, the BIOS says it's working fine and I've tried both Slave and Cable Select jumper settings. Scott
Can you post a screen shot of Disk Management? Have you checked that there aren't any bent pins on the drive? If it's IDE, one of the ones in the center of the upper row will be missing, and that's normal. But, if there's any others missing or bent, that could be a problem. How are your other drives jumpered? Some drives have one setting for a standalone drive and others for master/slave configurations.
Jeez, I've been struggling with this for 4 days now... I knew if I posted a question on here, I'd figure it out. I ended up leaving MaxBlast 3 run for about 30 minutes, and it said that "Support for large drives over 137Gb is not fully enabled" (My other drive, which has worked fine for years, is 160Gb) Anyway, I let it enable that, still no luck, so I ran MaxBlast again, about another 1/2 hour, and finally it finds the drive and says it is not configured for use with the system. A quick partition and format, and it's working fine now! The compressed air must have zapped it somehow, I know how I WON'T be cleaning my case... Thanks for your help and advice Karan and Big B, I really appreciate it and I apologize for wasting your time... Scott
Glad u got it sorted.... :beer: Just for the future reference, XP without SP1/SP2 also doesnt recognise HDD bigger than 137GB!
I have SP2, I don't know why it said support for large HDDs was disabled... It has seen my 160 Gb drive for the past 3 years... Thanks again. Scott
I'd have to argue with the logic on the compressed air being a problem in and of itself. It's been used repeatedly by thousands of people, including many here, without ill effects. Not to say it couldn't happen, but the odds of there being a problem caused by compressed air use is extremely low. The only thing I could think of is that the ribbon cable going from the drive's logic board to the acuator and R/W heads could've been dislodged slightly. Even then, those are in pretty tight, and the compressed air cans don't have enough force to do that. What it's starting to sound like, and this is just a guess, is that something was fooled with somehow that interfered with the BIOS addressing.
You may be right, Big B. I know, though, that he wasn't using a store-bought can of air, he was using a regulated and dried supply from a shop air compressor. He said all he did was pull the cover off, blow the dust out, put he cover back on, and then that drive (1 of 4 HDDs in the case) was dead. Whether he had too much pressure, or the drier wasn't working properly, or if it was something totally unrelated to the air, I don't know. I did look at the ribbon cable and it looked like it was fully seated. My only fear is that it was some random fluke that may just happen periodically... Probably not, but I won't put anything important on this drive until I trust it more.
Maxtor has been good about RMA's. I know Seagate owns them now, and I'll be finding out how Seagate's RMA process is since my 160GB has developed some bad sectors.
