Hard Drive Error

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Zack Dollar

I am running a p3-700 under win2k. I have an external drive usb 2.0 that
was not disconnected with the "usb icon" about a week ago. Th next day the
drive was not accessible.

Disk management does not show the drive. In device manager, you can see the
drive's model number. This is as an external drive.

When I take the drive out of the external case and plug it into the mobo the
bios sees the model number the drive does not appear in windows. I also
tried this on another pc.

The drive appears to be spinning. I ran Knoppix to see if the drive
appeared but no luck (as external and internal on 2 pc's).

I found a utility called r-studio that recognizes the drive when plugged in
externally but it says it is 76gb when it is 60gb. r-studio will do a
surface scan. When I start it on the drive it has an i/o error frequently.
I only let the test go for about 8 hrs and it was only about 5% done.

Could a read/wirte head failure cause these kinds of errors? I don't
understand how windows can see the model number but will not do anything
else. Are there any other utilities out there that may pinpoint the
problem?

I need important tax information from this drive.

60gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9

Thanks so much..
Zack
 
Exactly the same symptoms of my dead Maxtor 200GB that overheated (in the
Maxtor USB external drive). I was copying multi-gigabytes over a period of
days, non-stop, and boom. Dead.

Tom
 
Tom Scales said:
Exactly the same symptoms of my dead Maxtor 200GB that overheated (in the
Maxtor USB external drive).
Click to expand...
I was copying multi-gigabytes over a period of days, non-stop,
Click to expand...

Quite remarkable when it only takes less than 2 hours to fill it.
 
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