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Primary Master Fails - Help Needed
For what it is worth. I have a Maxtor 40g Model # 6L040J2. About a month ago it started hanging up WindowsXP and would start making a loud thumping noise. I opened up the CPU to make sure it was my HDD. It was. The first time it did it, I reseated all of the cables and power cable. It...- patdmoose
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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second hard drive...XP...missing NTLDR
I have an Emachine 400 MHZ, Celeron, 192 MEG, running XP upgraded from W98. The original 6.4 Seagate drive is maxed out. I added a Maxtor 40 Gig. I originally installed the drive with the MaxBlast software, only to find out later that it does not support XP. I reformatted the drive using XP...- patdmoose
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
