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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]

Yeah, Data Lifeguard tools is the tool set that Maxtor has on there website and ti works really good for the Maxtor drives. Also they have another one, and they both boot from the floppy. Where you can run quick and extended tests as well as 90/90 which is a good test.

You might need to run the extended ones, those are the only ones I recommend and in addition to that I have seen even those miss problems and the hardware is still bad, but thats only with memory because sometimes it can miss the intersections that are having issues intermitently.

Also like I said, which is under Disk Managment, is Dynamic Drive, which would make that drive apart of another drive or a couple of partitions, making it essentialy software Raid, but you would notice this and also you would have had to set it up that way. So its either a XP issue or a bad drive, or drive going bad. Also it could be a virus....

Does the machine ever hang on shutdown or booting??