Re: External Hard Drive Problems

#1

blacklotus90 wrote:

Quote:

The other day my computer crashed, and when it started back up, it went
through just like normal, got past the boot screen, but then froze on
the black screen between boot and login. I disconnected the hard drive,
and everything started working and worked perfectly. That is, until I
plugged in the drive. As soon as I plugged it in, Windows slowed to a
crawl.

People in our department have had these Maxtor drives and the same thing

has happened. I made the mistake of getting Maxtor drives for a RAID
system a few years ago. After replacing about half of the drives in the
first year it has been fairly stable since but I don't trust it to
anything vital anymore. Mainly just a staging area for backups to tape
now. I have gone to all Seagate and Hitachi drives but now Seagate has
bought Maxtor which makes me cringe!

Quote:

...

I have a CD called Hiren's BootDisk, which contains about 100
commercial and professional recovery and diagnostic utilities. I ran a
few of the disk rescue/checking utilities on the bootdisk, and they
detected both the partition and the files just fine, as if nothing was
wrong. A lot of precious data is on this drive, so I have to get it
working again.

Please Help!

What kind of help are you after? It sounds like you have the answer.

I'd move the data to another (non-Maxtor) drive and move on. Oh, and (of
course) make backups!

Steve

#2

Thanks for the advice. I used Knoppix (linux) to burn all my important
files to DVD, and then reformatted the drive as NTFS. It works fine
now.
Steve Cousins wrote:

Quote:

blacklotus90 wrote:

The other day my computer crashed, and when it started back up, it went
through just like normal, got past the boot screen, but then froze on
the black screen between boot and login. I disconnected the hard drive,
and everything started working and worked perfectly. That is, until I
plugged in the drive. As soon as I plugged it in, Windows slowed to a
crawl.

People in our department have had these Maxtor drives and the same thing
has happened. I made the mistake of getting Maxtor drives for a RAID
system a few years ago. After replacing about half of the drives in the
first year it has been fairly stable since but I don't trust it to
anything vital anymore. Mainly just a staging area for backups to tape
now. I have gone to all Seagate and Hitachi drives but now Seagate has
bought Maxtor which makes me cringe!

...

I have a CD called Hiren's BootDisk, which contains about 100
commercial and professional recovery and diagnostic utilities. I ran a
few of the disk rescue/checking utilities on the bootdisk, and they
detected both the partition and the files just fine, as if nothing was
wrong. A lot of precious data is on this drive, so I have to get it
working again.

Please Help!

What kind of help are you after? It sounds like you have the answer.
I'd move the data to another (non-Maxtor) drive and move on. Oh, and (of
course) make backups!

Steve

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

Re: External Hard Drive Problems

Storage systems Storage system issues, both hardware and software (comp.arch.storage)

Re: External Hard Drive Problems - 07-24-2006 , 11:31 AM

Re: External Hard Drive Problems - 07-24-2006 , 12:32 PM