Have a Maxtor 200GB hard drive that was fine a few days ago. Began an install of Debian Linux and during the partitioning, the linux partitioning failed with an I/O error. All my attempts to recover the drive have failed. My attempts have included reformatting via WinXP pro, Win2k pro, and multiple linux partition programs. Any help here would be appreciated.
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Using the Windows utilities, i'm unable to get access to the drive to partition. I get an I/O error and haven't been able to acess it at all. Windows Hardware Monitor sees it as a drive, but I don't get anything under My Computer for that drive. I haven't used Powermax, but I've attempted to run their MaxBlast software, but it won't run at all.
Powermax is diagnostic - with some repair abilities, not a partitioning tool like others, so worth trying first (drive may be dead of course).
You could try something like killdisk (to completely wipe drive) - but again, drive has to be accessible to do this.
does drive appear in XP's disk management (run diskmgmt.msc)?
You could try something like killdisk (to completely wipe drive) - but again, drive has to be accessible to do this.
does drive appear in XP's disk management (run diskmgmt.msc)?
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