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by nqbest

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hi guys,
i hope you can help me.
my 40gb maxtor harddisk just crash, the bios can detect it but once enter my win2k os, its unreadable anymore. I use fdisk to create partition and its detected also, but once its finish and im about to format, still its again unpartition, i repeat that for many times using fdisk but its always like that, no partition defined. Is my harddisk still usable? I use different disk utility like maxblast,partition magic but all same problem, once the pc restared, its now unallocated disk. Hope anyone can help me on this. Thanks in advance...

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by sue t

you should go to maxtor's website and download their utility for testing hard drives. these are normally programs that you copy to floppy or CD by following the instructions carefully and they will then be bootable. Boot to the utility and run the diagnostic test. You may have to go into your bios and change the boot order so that it boots to whichever drive you have the disk utility in. good luck.

by venky03cp35

Sorry my dear! it signifies harddisk is at end of life, even though if you want to use that harddisk, will be a headache in the future

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