Harddisk trouble

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Yesterday, I suddenly started to get problems with my Win2k
installation, since a lot of problems would not start. By chance, I
found out that the temp-directory of the current user was corrupt. By
creating a new directory, I was able to solve the problem itself. But
since then, chkdsk always reports problems and starts after every
reboot. Chkdsk seems to repair something but with no effect.

In the repair console (I don't know the exact English term), chkdsk
quits after 28% and tells me: "There seems to be at least one
unrecoverable problem." (translated from German). The harddisk tool
from Maxtor runs without finding an error in through all available
tests. In my every-day work, everything seems to work but I want to
solve this problem anyway.

Are there some other tools to check (and repair!) the file system or
the harddisk? I would appreciate any help.

Cheers,
Bernd
 
Yesterday, I suddenly started to get problems with my Win2k
installation, since a lot of problems would not start. By chance, I
found out that the temp-directory of the current user was corrupt. By
creating a new directory, I was able to solve the problem itself. But
since then, chkdsk always reports problems and starts after every
reboot. Chkdsk seems to repair something but with no effect.

In the repair console (I don't know the exact English term), chkdsk
quits after 28% and tells me: "There seems to be at least one
unrecoverable problem." (translated from German). The harddisk tool
from Maxtor runs without finding an error in through all available
tests. In my every-day work, everything seems to work but I want to
solve this problem anyway.

Are there some other tools to check (and repair!) the file system or
the harddisk? I would appreciate any help.

Cheers,
Bernd
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If the Maxtor tool found no problem with your hard disk then
there is no physical damage. However, its file system appears
to be damaged. Here are a few of options to deal with this
situation:
a) Back up all important files, then re-install Windows and all
applications after allowing the disk to be formatted.
b) Get yourself a spare disk of suitable size and connect it as
a slave disk. Partition and format it. Now reboot the machine
with a Bart PE boot CD and use xcopy.exe to copy the
flawed disk to the new disk.
c) Install the flawed disk as a slave disk in some other Win2000/XP
PC, then use xcopy.exe to copy it to a target location with
enough free space.

After completing the copy process in Options b) or c), format the
flawed disk, then reverse the copy process. Post again if you need
further details about the exact syntax of the xcopy command.
 
I had the same problem recently the drive would work then you could hear a
click and the computer would freeze (tried 3 computers) when I called maxtor
they had me update the firmware and then I got error codes and had to RMA
the drive
 
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