Maxtor 6Y160P0 - F: not accessible corrupt and unreadable error message

teksteppa · 06-03-2007, 08:34 AM

HI , I have 2 HD's in my system the Maxtor 6Y160P0 being the slave drive (with most of my important work on ffs!!!) , anyway until yesterday it was booting up fine....and Windows was automatically running a CHKDSK on F: each time I started up the pc....but for some reason it is not automatically doing the CHKDSK anymore and when Windows starts up I cannot access anything on the F: HD.

I have looked in the device manager section and it says F: is Healthy (Active) and it also is being detected in the BIOS

Also tried the Command prompt - CHKDSK /f f: but it said it could not determine volume or state and the CHKDSK was aborted !!!

Has anyone got any idea what I can do to get all my files back off this HD?

If so , you are a legend !!!

teksteppa · 06-03-2007, 08:50 AM

forgot to mention that also when I goto My Computer , select the drive (F:) and goto properties and try the Error-Checking option , it does NOTHING???

teksteppa · 06-03-2007, 12:04 PM

I have now also tried this HD in another PC , unfortunately it is doing exactly the same as it is on my PC system......

Same error message when I try to access F:

'F: is unacessible , the file or drive is corrupt and unreadable' or something like that anyway !!!

PLEASE HELP!!! I do NOT want to loose the data on this HD if possible.....

06-03-2007, 08:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
teksteppa Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 6 OS: Win Xp Sp 2	Maxtor 6Y160P0 - F: not accessible corrupt and unreadable error message HI , I have 2 HD's in my system the Maxtor 6Y160P0 being the slave drive (with most of my important work on ffs!!!) , anyway until yesterday it was booting up fine....and Windows was automatically running a CHKDSK on F: each time I started up the pc....but for some reason it is not automatically doing the CHKDSK anymore and when Windows starts up I cannot access anything on the F: HD. I have looked in the device manager section and it says F: is Healthy (Active) and it also is being detected in the BIOS Also tried the Command prompt - CHKDSK /f f: but it said it could not determine volume or state and the CHKDSK was aborted !!! Has anyone got any idea what I can do to get all my files back off this HD? If so , you are a legend !!!

06-03-2007, 08:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
teksteppa Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 6 OS: Win Xp Sp 2	Re: Maxtor 6Y160P0 - F: not accessible corrupt and unreadable error message forgot to mention that also when I goto My Computer , select the drive (F:) and goto properties and try the Error-Checking option , it does NOTHING???

06-03-2007, 12:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
teksteppa Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 6 OS: Win Xp Sp 2	Re: Maxtor 6Y160P0 - F: not accessible corrupt and unreadable error message I have now also tried this HD in another PC , unfortunately it is doing exactly the same as it is on my PC system...... Same error message when I try to access F: 'F: is unacessible , the file or drive is corrupt and unreadable' or something like that anyway !!! PLEASE HELP!!! I do NOT want to loose the data on this HD if possible.....