Damage patition Table

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Hi,

I have a IBM deskstar drive which I have been using as a slave drive
with Windows XP Home for several months with no problems. However about
a month ago the computer took a long time to detect the drive and once
it eventually did it kept trying to read it but this no luck. Thus
completely slowed the boot up process of a minute to about 5 minutes. I
have tried to gain access to the drive via windows explorer but when I
click on the drive it just constantly tries to read the drive with no
luck (I can hear the drive working). I think when I tried booting up in
safe mode it came up with a comment like can't access or can't find the
partition table.

I have a couple of question which I hope someone out there may be able
to help me with:

1.Is there a way for me to repair this partition table?

2.If i can't repair how can i format the dive when windows will not let
me gain access to the drive.

I have tried the drive both as a master and slave but neither work

I would be gratful for any help.

Thanks
 
Hi,

I have a IBM deskstar drive which I have been using as a slave drive
with Windows XP Home for several months with no problems. However
about a month ago the computer took a long time to detect the drive
and once it eventually did it kept trying to read it but this no luck.
Thus completely slowed the boot up process of a minute to about 5
minutes. I have tried to gain access to the drive via windows explorer
but when I click on the drive it just constantly tries to read the
drive with no luck (I can hear the drive working). I think when I
tried booting up in safe mode it came up with a comment like can't
access or can't find the partition table.

I have a couple of question which I hope someone out there may be able
to help me with:

1.Is there a way for me to repair this partition table?

2.If i can't repair how can i format the dive when windows will not
let me gain access to the drive.

I have tried the drive both as a master and slave but neither work
Click to expand...

They didn't call these drives "Death Star" for nothing. It sounds like
your drive has died. This is a physical problem and even if you could
get the drive to stay up long enough, repairing the partition table
will not help. The drive is toast. If you want to be sure, download a
drive diagnostic from IBM. Usually you will make a bootable cd or
floppy with the file you get. Boot with it and do a thorough scan of
the drive. If you get any physical errors, replace the drive.

If you have crucial data on the drive that you neglected to back up:
http://www.drivesavers.com

Malke
 
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