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Hi,
I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 80GB harddrive which seems to have a
strange problem. The drive is FAT32 formated and worked fine until one
day i saw the error message "unable to write to drive"(the disk was
nearly 50% full) i ran M$ Scandisk and everything was okay but only for
a day :/. It seems that the whole FATable has disappeared because
windows cant open the drive and Paritition Magic says its unformatted.
I ran GetDataBack for FAT and it detects that the drive is FAT32
formated and after doing a data recovery all data which was available
before the crash appears to be on the disk exept the allocation
information. To be honest that happens for a second time with this disk
and i remember that before the previous crash the disk was nearly 50%
full as now and i think that there's some connection between used
capacity and crash. I'm going to run Maxtor' PowerMax tonight and i'll
post the results back here. If somebody thinks that this is a
controller issiue my mobo is Elitegroup P6BAT-A+ flashed with the
latest bios update(5.6) and the drive is properly recognised by the
BIOS. Forgot to mention that the drive warranty is over so no
replacement can be purchased.
p.s. Thanks for any help in advance
Hi,
I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 80GB harddrive which seems to have a
strange problem. The drive is FAT32 formated and worked fine until one
day i saw the error message "unable to write to drive"(the disk was
nearly 50% full) i ran M$ Scandisk and everything was okay but only for
a day :/. It seems that the whole FATable has disappeared because
windows cant open the drive and Paritition Magic says its unformatted.
I ran GetDataBack for FAT and it detects that the drive is FAT32
formated and after doing a data recovery all data which was available
before the crash appears to be on the disk exept the allocation
information. To be honest that happens for a second time with this disk
and i remember that before the previous crash the disk was nearly 50%
full as now and i think that there's some connection between used
capacity and crash. I'm going to run Maxtor' PowerMax tonight and i'll
post the results back here. If somebody thinks that this is a
controller issiue my mobo is Elitegroup P6BAT-A+ flashed with the
latest bios update(5.6) and the drive is properly recognised by the
BIOS. Forgot to mention that the drive warranty is over so no
replacement can be purchased.
p.s. Thanks for any help in advance