Maxtor External HDD

Hello Member's

I have this External Maxtor 160GB for some reasons it seems to always aked me to format even tho its already Formatted and this has happened @ least 3 times i have tried to partition the Drive and same results ... I have tried diffrent options .. I keep loosing my DATA it is very unreliable ..I have to turn off because it freezes up my PC

my question why does this Drive does this it changes to Local Drive like its never been partition

Is there a solution ??

Thanks
dabonz

 

I know there was a large number of maxtor removable drives recalled last year (in the UK) due to failing power supplies, but I don't think this is your issue.

Can you tell me what the model number is and what OS are you using. When you purchased the drive would be helpful as well.

 

Hello,

Yes i removed it from the External casing and installed in my PC on a IDE controller no luck
my first partiton on 9Gb is ok its my second partition that i "m having problems with I/O error and it ask me to Format I know that's its not a USB error cuz i have other drives that are USB and I took the MAXTOR HDD out and put in and 80GB WDC in the Maxtor
Casing runnignon thee Same USB connector.

This has happen in the past on a full partition so i figured that maybe i would split it into
2 partition.. I really did not trust this HDD Maxtor so i burnt on DVD my data and music


It's a DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB ATA/133 HDD


P.S I did not know that SEAGATE bough out Maxtor

yes My HDD is our of warranty as of 2005 I just called them....

But what I will do is do a chkdsk maybe it will repair the bad clusters or marked it has bad were it won't to that clusters

Thanks Dabonz

 

Before you run that chkdsk you may want to run diagnostics on the drive...

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/

Your drive may be failing, but look on the bright side you've now got an extra external HDD enclosure

 

If it keeps "losing" the partition/s I suggest you use the Seagate utilities to "update the MBR ", no luck, "format the first 32 Sectors of the drive ", then remake and reformat the partitions.

 

Yes but on the 2 partition i would like to retrieve some of DATA

 

Why do people always think of this after they have a problem

 

Same reason I do not fix my leaky roof when its not raining.

You could try "testdisk" . Read the How to Use with special note on Recover Boot Sector.
www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html