How to run chkdsk on unassigned drive?

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I have a corrupted hard drive (Maxtor 80GB). I ran some basic
programs and each one reported a problem with the drive like corrupted
file system, bad partition table, unreadable sectors with crc errors,
and so on. But none of them ran through the whole disk and provided
complete report with computed
statistics like at least chkdsk does. The problem is that chkdsk
requires an assigned drive letter and my corrupted hard drive does not
get one. How to get around this problem and run chkdsk or get
another program that will check the whole drive without fixing
anything and without hanging up or simply terminating at the first
error.
 
Last summer my D drive (a 60 gig drive) lost its partition table -- and
could no longer be seen by the system in windows.

I used this program -- Bootmaster
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz/index.html

He has a tryout version -- it will test your disk but not repair it -- so
that you can see whether or not it will work for you before you buy it.

I found him helpful and honest. And the program, which I ended up buying,
did what it promised to do -- it found the partition table and repaired it.

Later on I invested bigger bucks in Steve Gibson's SpinRite. That program
does not repair MBRs -- but does thoroughly check out and repair the file
system. Since my problem turned out to be only the MBR, even though I later
ran SpinRite, I never did get the opportunity to see it do its magic (and I
am glad I didn't have to).

Whatever your problem is, if it begins with the MBR being toasted, the
BootMaster program may be what you need.

HTH

albert
 
MMM42's log on stardate 04 stu 2004
I have a corrupted hard drive (Maxtor 80GB). I ran some basic
programs and each one reported a problem with the drive like
corrupted file system, bad partition table, unreadable sectors with
crc errors, and so on. But none of them ran through the whole disk
and provided complete report with computed statistics like at least
chkdsk does. The problem is that chkdsk requires an assigned drive
letter and my corrupted hard drive does not get one. How to get
around this problem and run chkdsk or get another program that will
check the whole drive without fixing anything and without hanging up
or simply terminating at the first error.
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Why not trying with Maxtors official utility MaxBlast 3.

http://downloads.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_us/downloads/maxblast3.exe
 
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