Have to repeatedly format hard drive.

[Joeskyman]

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?

 

[edfair]

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.

 

[micker377]

Intermittant IDE cable plug?

 

[Joeskyman]

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.