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Recent content by SNMINC
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Has anyone noticed a lot of Maxtor HDD failures ?
Thought I'd add my tu'pence worth. I have an 80GB Maxtor HD which was purchased last July. It failed to boot and was replaced under warranty in September. The replacement has failed after my electricity supply tripped out yet my Primary HD an IBM Deskstar 36GB is still soldiering on (despite the...- SNMINC
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Secondary Hard Drive Failure
Many thanks to all those who have offered assistance. Here's my latest sitrep: I couldn't use PC Inspector as it's incompatible with NTFS (sorry I forgot to mention it earlier). I downloaded and ran the Emergency Boot up CD, It's a very impressive package unfortunately it didn't see my secondary...- SNMINC
- Post #6
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Secondary Hard Drive Failure
Many thanks for the quick response Diddyman alas neither Windows explorer nor the Disk Management sees my secondary drive (F:) Any ideas where I go from here? Thanks [sad]- SNMINC
- Post #3
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Secondary Hard Drive Failure
Greetings to all, Yesterday my secondary harddrive (80gb sorry I've forgotten the manufacturer) went down. When my PC boots up (win XP) I get a hard disk 1 not found error. The Bios is set to auto detect both hard disks. yet when i run Partition Magic Vers 7 it detects the...- SNMINC
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