I have recently been having serious hard disk problems that I have mostly resolved. The trouble started when a different disk went bad and crashed my machine. Somehow it did something to another disk, so now I am left with the following situation.
I have two identical drives. I now wish to re-format them and restore their contacts from backup. Whilst one drive is fine and passes all SpinRites tests, etc. the other, causes my PC to pause for about two minutes after POST and before Windows starts to boot. I can then initialise this disk and format it, but, then SpinRite does not see the disk as having a valid partition table!.
Does anyone have any ideas how to restore this disk to full health. It passes Hitachi's DFT program's test with flying colours, although as usual the boot up process is much slower for this disk than the other disks. Unfortunately these disks are out of warranty.
When testing I have used the same IDE port and the same cable, one drive at a time and always configured as a Master disk.
The disks in question are. IBM (Hitatchi) Deskstars, Model :- IC35L120AVV207-0 Capacity 123.5Gb Type ATA/IDE
Any thoughts/solutions would be much appreciated.
I have two identical drives. I now wish to re-format them and restore their contacts from backup. Whilst one drive is fine and passes all SpinRites tests, etc. the other, causes my PC to pause for about two minutes after POST and before Windows starts to boot. I can then initialise this disk and format it, but, then SpinRite does not see the disk as having a valid partition table!.
Does anyone have any ideas how to restore this disk to full health. It passes Hitachi's DFT program's test with flying colours, although as usual the boot up process is much slower for this disk than the other disks. Unfortunately these disks are out of warranty.
When testing I have used the same IDE port and the same cable, one drive at a time and always configured as a Master disk.
The disks in question are. IBM (Hitatchi) Deskstars, Model :- IC35L120AVV207-0 Capacity 123.5Gb Type ATA/IDE
Any thoughts/solutions would be much appreciated.