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Broken Maxxtor Harddrive

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by jason89, 2009/07/13.

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    jason89

    jason89 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    I've been having problems with my harddrive recently, I've been told to run chkdsk.exe by a friend and it came up with "Windows have found a problem with the file system, run with /F to fix" I did that to no avail, I am thinking I need to buy a new harddrive and had my mind set on this http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/40490/alt
    bare in mind I am not a hardcore pc user, just need one that works so 500gb is more than enough, currently I am using 160gb and thats fine.
    What are your views on what could be wrong and how can I fix this?
    Thanks in advance
     
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    PeteC

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    jason89

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    Thankyou for the quick reply and warm welcome!
    asrock g31m-s thats my mobo
    and sorry does the seatools diagnostics software work for my maxtor drive? I cannot find the maxtor diagnostics on that page you linked me.

    P.S In the case I do need to buy a new harddrive, would I need a sort of boot disk for the new HDD to be recognised by the mobo? I have the original Win XP OS CD, I was told by a friend that that would be more than sufficient.
     
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    Follow the Maxtor Internal (PATA & SATA) link from the page I linked to .....
    I suggest you use Seatools for DOS as this runs outside Windows - read the tutorial :)

    Your mobo supports SATA II so the drive you selected is compatible.
    No - check in the BIOS that the boot order is set to CD-ROM > Floppy > Hard Drive and boot from the XP CD. On the second screen you will need to press F6 to tell the install that you have to load SATA drivers - a little later in the process you will be asked for a floppy with the SATA drivers on it. These should be on your mobo CD together with instructions to make the floppy.

    If you do not have a floppy drive see ....

    Install Windows XP on SATA without a Floppy (F6)
     
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