(Drive concerned is a DiamondMax 10 model 6L200P0)
My allegence to Maxtor hard drives has never been tested, with over 10 years of loyal service from the company. Until now - my 200gb DiamondMax has apparently just died.
At least this is what appears to have happened - but the problem has occurred so quickly that I'm left a little skeptical.
The drive has worked fine for a year or so, no noises and no errors whatsoever. Then yesterday evening I was accessing it from another computer on my network and I got a 'corrupt folder' message. I got it with most of, but not all the folders on the drive.
Later that evening, the drive registered in My Computer as having a 'RAW' file system (never a good sign), and after a reboot it didn't show up at all.
I've tried it in my main PC and it just hung the system at boot (when it was searching for IDE devices). When I put it back in it's 'home' computer, it registered in the BIOS with a different name each time I booted up, sometimes the correct name but all in lower case, sometimes just 'mAxToR', sometimes 'mAxToR 612' (but never the fated 'Calypso').
This has all happened so suddenly I'm not convinced it's drive failure. If there's any boot CDs or recovery tools anyone can suggest that'd be just swell (I've tried a couple but they weren't exactly forthcoming with the options promised on the websites).
My allegence to Maxtor hard drives has never been tested, with over 10 years of loyal service from the company. Until now - my 200gb DiamondMax has apparently just died.
At least this is what appears to have happened - but the problem has occurred so quickly that I'm left a little skeptical.
The drive has worked fine for a year or so, no noises and no errors whatsoever. Then yesterday evening I was accessing it from another computer on my network and I got a 'corrupt folder' message. I got it with most of, but not all the folders on the drive.
Later that evening, the drive registered in My Computer as having a 'RAW' file system (never a good sign), and after a reboot it didn't show up at all.
I've tried it in my main PC and it just hung the system at boot (when it was searching for IDE devices). When I put it back in it's 'home' computer, it registered in the BIOS with a different name each time I booted up, sometimes the correct name but all in lower case, sometimes just 'mAxToR', sometimes 'mAxToR 612' (but never the fated 'Calypso').
This has all happened so suddenly I'm not convinced it's drive failure. If there's any boot CDs or recovery tools anyone can suggest that'd be just swell (I've tried a couple but they weren't exactly forthcoming with the options promised on the websites).