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[wizzard]

My Maxtor D740X-6L 40GiG hard drive desapeard from my C:\

It has no operating system on it has 2 partition and its used for storage only Downloads.

it just stopped working i tried all kind of sttup deferent connection but with no luck

Bios see's it, Hardware Manager see's it but when i come to C:\ its not there i changed cables and even tried deferent Box another comp. same thing.
And one more thing i relised as soon as i hook it on the bootup time is going up to 10min
and when i take it off the box the bootup is back to normal.

Please if anyone can help me with this

thank you

[boxcrash]

Have you tried running diag on it?? Like any kind of drive diagnostics?? Sounds like it is a bad drive, or drive that is going bad.

Also it could have something to do with if you are using Dyanmic drive in XP.