Hello,
I've got a problem with a 20gb Maxtor hard disk. I have the Operative system of my second computer in it. It began giving me problems so i tried to install win me again, i got problems as well so i ran scandisk and it never finished.
I downloaded a bootable disk from maxtor.com, and i did the advanced test. It found problems, and it said that they were corrected. I wanted to install win Xp but when i formated to NTFS the installer said that the format couldn't be done because there were errors in the disk. I formated with Fat32 and there were no problems. I istalled win me, but i got lots of problems with the installation as well, and i got lots of blue screens saying that a write operation on drive c couldn't be performed.
I ran maxtor'd diskette again and i did a low level format. Then i 'exercised' the disk for 2 hours (an operation that writes in every portion of the disk) and i had no trouble.
But then again i couldn't format with NTFS and i had the same blue screen with win me.
the warranty is over. should i throw it to the garbage??
thanks for your help!!!
I've got a problem with a 20gb Maxtor hard disk. I have the Operative system of my second computer in it. It began giving me problems so i tried to install win me again, i got problems as well so i ran scandisk and it never finished.
I downloaded a bootable disk from maxtor.com, and i did the advanced test. It found problems, and it said that they were corrected. I wanted to install win Xp but when i formated to NTFS the installer said that the format couldn't be done because there were errors in the disk. I formated with Fat32 and there were no problems. I istalled win me, but i got lots of problems with the installation as well, and i got lots of blue screens saying that a write operation on drive c couldn't be performed.
I ran maxtor'd diskette again and i did a low level format. Then i 'exercised' the disk for 2 hours (an operation that writes in every portion of the disk) and i had no trouble.
But then again i couldn't format with NTFS and i had the same blue screen with win me.
the warranty is over. should i throw it to the garbage??
thanks for your help!!!