HD on a7n8x-x nf2 break down...it was a maxtor 5400 fire ball 3 40gigs ---

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that drive was on a old computer and had the particularty to be a
ata133 so i switch it with the ha that i had and now after one mount
it break...


why is that?

a got a xp1900
winxp pro sp1 +
an a7n8x-x nf2
with the 3.13 driver nforce 2
a fx5200td 51.16 driver
512megs of ddr kingston 333

i was playing at halo just before it break.

should i blame the I/o on the disk...?
 
WHAT are you talking about?!?!


fx said:
that drive was on a old computer and had the particularty to be a
ata133 so i switch it with the ha that i had and now after one mount
it break...


why is that?

a got a xp1900
winxp pro sp1 +
an a7n8x-x nf2
with the 3.13 driver nforce 2
a fx5200td 51.16 driver
512megs of ddr kingston 333

i was playing at halo just before it break.

should i blame the I/o on the disk...?
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WHAT are you talking about?!?!
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i think this is ovious i'm expériencing Hard Drive failure with the
alocation table been screw up. In result i cant format the drive
because my computer does'nt reconise it. Plus in the bois it's say
ares c64k and it flashing on and off...

my specification...are
 
How is the HD formatted? with NTFS or with Fat 32? If it is Fat 32 you can
run spinrite on it and that MIGHT clear up your problems, it's a great
utility. (however it is not free, it's shareware), take a look at
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm he is a good guy and knows allot about drives,
he has some of the best utilities around.

Do you have critical data on the drive? or are you trying to format it so
you can do a clean install? If you are tryiong to format it, have you
deleted the partition, and created a new one using the old Fdisk command?
Fdisk will destroy the data on the drive, but if it will not sucessufully
complete an Fdisk command the drive is toast anyway.....it might complete
the fdisk command and still not format though if there are too many bad
sectors on the drive.
If you could give more particulars on what is going on I will try to help
more......
Hope this helps,
Bitsbucket.
 
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