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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

[judson70]

What OS are you running? Windows XP has a great (sic) tools to manage drives. It's called Disk Management and it's found in the Administrator tools under control panel. See if your drive is listed there and if it is .. see if it has an error messege beside it ... the help file that's included will tell you what to do if there is an error.

Peace