harddrive gone?

[streetster]

Compuer just froze bout 5mins ago.. so waited.. nothing. so I turned it off.. turned it on and it wouldnt get past the post screen (just sat there). so off again, off at the wall.. waited a bit.. back on, voila booted windows no worries.

Except that windows has just re-found my 60gb maxtor drive (2nd harddrive), which is 2/3 linux, 1/3 windows... There was no F: drive in my computer anymore.. so went to disk management and this is what i saw:




is there anything i can do other than wipe it and start from scratch? I havent yet checked whether linux works, is that worth doing in an attempt to salvage anything (I had a load of music and stuff on there, luckily none of my Uni work...), or is the drive completely gone and should i (potentially) RMA and get a new one (if i can run the maxtor test proggy on it and it finds a fault)...

any ideas guys?

[Ferral]

Try taking the additional drive out and sticking it in another machine and see if it gets accessed and can be seen / used with no problems. It could well be a possible problem with the port on the mainboard.

Another thing to try would be to make sure the drive is on a primary slot on the IDE channels with nothing slaved to it at all

[streetster]

cool, i'll try that later ferral

[streetster]

ok.. the drive is knackered.. now my computer wont boot windows if the drive is plugged in.. sooo replacement harddrive time

What SATA drive do you recommend? I was thinking of getting an 80gb and having 60/20 split of windows/linux.. or would it be worth getting a 120gb and doing 80/40 ? I dont want to spend more than £50 (inc) ideally... so what do you guys suggest I think i need a change from maxtor tbh.

[Lee H]

Seagate's get my thumbs up as I have a mix of seagate and maxtor at home.

fyi - Seagate helped designed the serial ATA platform along with intel, hp and a few other folks and have produced some great drives and of course they have the seagate warranties which is another thumbs up.

[streetster]

something like this one? 'seagate warranties'... is that 3 years opposed to every one elses 1year? Need to see whether my maxtor is still in warranty... doubtful

[Lee H]

http://www.seagate.com/support/servi...r_periods.html

Hope this chart helps