Disk gone bad?

[tobbel]

Just cloned my old drive with winxp sp2 to a new sata (Seagate 80gb, bought it 3 weeks ago). It went fine at first, but then one day it just wouldn't start windows. It boots so i can see that the drive was found, then I get to chose if I want to start Normal, Fail safe mode, last configuration etc.
None of the options works. It tries for a few seconds, Normal start manages to show the black XP logo with the loading bar, then shows an error messege, but it's too fast to read one word, and then reboots. Fail safe loads the files from the directory pointed out in boot.ini and then turns all black for a few seconds and reboot.

I tried to put the old disk in again and boot up windows. Starts off really slow and I can't see the sata drive in Explorer. Could not load Partition magic due to disk fault. Tried with Paragon Partition Manager. It shows the disk and size but says it is disconnected so I can't do anything with it.

I have also tried booting from the XP cd and chose Repair, but it says there is no drive at all.

Anyone got a clue?

 

[mainegeek]

tobbel,
Is the new sata drive connected to sata controller card or does the motherboard have sata controllers on board?

Was the old drive ide or sata?

Sounds like you need to install the sata drivers.

 

[traycee]

The easiest way to find out if your Seagate SATA drive is to download Seagates SeaTools

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

and check the drive.

 

[tobbel]

first...
The sata drive is connected to the motherboard. The original drive was not a sata, but I have another sata drive (seagate 250gb, non-system drive) that works fine.
This new drive did work for 2-3 weeks (as a system drive) with no errors before this happened. Hmm... actually there was an error when I think about it. Something with the Recycle Bin. Got some error messege that I haven't seen before when I deleted something...
I have tried to boot with and without the other 2 drives connected without success. I didn't make any changes in configuration between the occansions when it all worked and the time when it failed to enter Windows.

I've been searching for some tools and also found Seagates SeaTools. I will try that maybe tonight.

I also came across a tool called Partition Table Doctor (

http://www.ptdd.com/ptdmoreinfo.htm)

that I might try. Know anything about that one?

Thanks for helping me out

 

[tobbel]

Been running SeaTools from a bootable CD on the drive (don't have a floppy installed). One of the tests showed this:
- One or more cross-links were found
- One or more errors were found in index
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records

I have seen other people on other forums getting the last error (metadata...) on Seagates SATA-drives, but I haven't seen any solutions.

How do I fix this?

 

[tobbel]

A surface scan with Partition Table Doctor resulted in no bad sectors. That's about all the program could do, since it was a demo I couldn't rebuild MBR.

I have also tried to delete the partition with xp cd, but it can't be removed or repaired. According to the setup program the disk has 76317mb space and 76316 free space, which is weird cause it had a Windows xp install with lots of programs, approx. 10 gb used.

Is there some other kind of program that can remove the partition from a bootable disk/cd?