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  1. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    I found this article: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable-c.html thought it can be usefull and there is like to be possible a data corruption to occur on some systems due to 40 Conductor cables use. So, i'll wait for the shipment of my new cables.
  2. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    I've continued to play with the disk this time formated it as a one 80gb fat32 paritition and started to copy files from my other drive. Writing the first 30gb's was successfull, then ~30.5gb windows said it again :( "Unable to write to drive" so i stopped the copying becouse a new blue screen...
  3. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    I've tried to write a bunch of files on the 16.3GB directory. And i've been stopped by the same error. As a side effect the other two parititions were corrupted even the drive labels were pretty messed up. Take a look http://mugsi.hit.bg/corrupt.jpg . Drive D and E are the 29.9 Pieces and G the...
  4. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    Hi again, I've parititioned the disk to 2 29.9GB pieces and one 16.3. After writing on the second 29.9GB paritiotion i got a bluscreen error : Unable to write to drive. Data may be lost. It is so frustrating. And the diagnose software still claims that the drive is certified erorr free. Any...
  5. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    yo, i've read about this limitation in winxp. yes 98 can format larger parititions but can access them properly. thats wath bother's me. I use Win98SE with all available updates installed. I still hope that the drive is ok :]]], so i gonna do that experiment i mentioned above. THX for posting
  6. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    Hi, thank u all for posting here. @wolluf first, this patch for fdisk is not to fix parititions over 64gb, but to help fdisk recognise properly the whole disk size of disks larger than 64gb. Yep, the problem should be hardware, but i have other two drives a 20g Fujitsu and a 30g Maxtor and they...
  7. mugsi

    Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus strange problem/fat corruption???

    Hi i got a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus 80 gigs harddrive and i have a problem never met before in my hardware experience. A little background: The BOX is PIII 672Mhz(112FSBx6) 256 RAM on Elitegroup P6BAT-A+ mobo running Windows 98SE and FAT32 as filesystem. The drive is properly installed...

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