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wizzard
post Jun 22 2004, 02:08 AM
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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


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PimpScourge
post Jun 22 2004, 06:27 AM
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Maxtor has it's own diagnostic tool (I guess they know their drives fail much). go to maxtor.com, and under the support section put your HD model. It will take you to a page where you can download the diagnostic tool.
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