MMMiii!

Apparently, my Maxtor drive died. I’m still looking into ways to fix it, but at the moment, I’m declaring it dead. Along with my X drive.

I just bought X recently, about 2 weeks ago. It’s a 320Gb Seagate drive (PATA) and I planned to dedicate it to music. It’s an internal HDD inside an external case. So far it had about 200+ Gb of music already.

I’m going to write about what happened in case someone else has a better idea.

I mentioned that I’m also taking proofreading and editing a paper for someone. But I was too lazy to sit on my behind and I decided to do it on my laptop like I did with the first draft. I saved the draft on X because I set it as download default since that was what I’ve been downloading lately–catching up on music I missed for the past few months. And X was on share.

So I was trying to access the draft over WAN and it said the drive was inaccessible. I’ve been getting I/O Device errors before so I thought that that might be affecting it, so I moved my lazy behind to the desktop and checked what was happening. I tried accessing X and it kept saying that it was inaccessible. There was another error but I forgot what it was.

I figured that maybe a reboot would help, so I rebooted.

After the reboot… It said it was empty. I checked disk management, it said it was healthy, but when I tried accessing it, it was still inaccessible. Horror or horrors, it was empty. I started crying. And panicking. I grabbed R-Studio and checked if I could retrieve my files and it couldn’t read it…

One of the people in my channel suggested to put it inside the case so I lovingly unscrewed the slave drive inside and put X in it. And when I turned on the computer, it wouldn’t boot. It stopped at Memory Test.

I tried unplugging the power from X and the same thing happened. I tried unplugging Maxtor and I was able to reach “Detecting IDE drives …” Getting to the BIOS options didn’t work in both cases.

I tried removing the IDE cable of the DVD drive and plugged the cable of Maxtor there, and the same thing happened, I got stuck at Memory Test. I suspected if it was my RAM sticks, so I removed one and ran it, and the other one and ran it, and the values were correct and aside from what was already happening, nothing else that was funny happened, so I concluded that it wasn’t my RAM.

I unplugged all IDE cables and I was able to proceed past “Detecting IDE drives …” and of course I got the error asking for the boot disk.

I put another drive inside, the one that was originally inside, and set it as master and set Maxtor as slave, and it wasn’t detected. *sigh*

Anyone got ideas before I do something as drastic as installing Windows Vista Ultimate?

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