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Have to repeatedly format hard drive.

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Joeskyman

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Feb 8, 2005
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I've got a used 30gig Maxtor I'm using as Primary-slave for storage and backup files only. I've partitioned and formated the drive using XP Admin tools as well as Maxblast. I can copy files and folders to it and access them without a problem, but after a few days I get "drive not accessable" or "data invalid" or if I can access the drive, some of the files are missing. If I repartition and format the drive again, it works ok for a few days. I'll probably just scrap the drive, but I've never run into this before. Any ideas?
 
Download and run the diagnostics. May require several days for the failure to appear.
Sounds like you have a heat related problem on the controller board.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
 
Thanks, You've answered my question. Heat problem on controller board makes sense to me as well. Not the cable, had this drive do the same thing in a hard drive box set up for usb. I checked the warrantee, it's out, so I scrapped it.
Thanks again.
 
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