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My Maxtor 6Y160PO 160 Gb HDD recently crashed on me. I brought up the computer management screen it shows the hard drive as being installed and ready to lose. But when I click on it in my computer it says, "D:/ is not accessible the file and directory is unreadable.
This is my media drive and reformating would mean losing around 80 gigs worth of movies. Any ideas?
Have you tried chkdsk /r from the recovery console?
Right now try this:
From start click run and type chkdsk D: /f /r then click OK.
If you get a warning prompting you to let the check run after rebooting, press Y and restart you computer.
Goodluck!
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Test your hard drive to determine whether the drive is failing or just the data on it is messed up.
See the first part of response 2 in this:
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...
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Sabertooth,
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When i put in the command you told me to a black box pops up and disappears its the same everytime. no prompts or anything. Any other suggestions? Also this is my backup drive, just has media on it.
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And Tubesandwires
I just pulled the hard drive out of my friends PC and it was working and then it just crashed for no special reason.
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That is weird, I have always used the chkdsk command from Windows especially chkdsk c: /r and the command console has never exhibited that split second behavior for me, and unless something's recently changed. You should have gotten this and just needed to press Y and reboot.
You can try the command from the cmd console too.
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Do you have two hard drives, or 2 partitions on the one Maxtor 6Y160PO?. Is the Maxtor 6Y160PO your D logical drive?
If you have only one hard drive and it has only one partition, D is your CD drive, and "D:/ is not accessible the file and directory is unreadable." would be a normal message for that situation if there is no CD in the drive.Whatever your case is, type cmd at Start - Run, then type chkdsk D: /f /r as Sabertooth suggested (spaces between in the three places) - if chkdsk is not running because there is a problem or what you typed is incorrect, the error message will be displayed and be evident, because the black screen window will not go away until you type exit.
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" Whatever your case is, type cmd at Start - Run, then type chkdsk D: /f /r as Sabertooth suggested (spaces between in the three places)....."
or at least spaces between chkdsk and D:, and D: and /f
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The command shows that my file system is in NTFS and that it is unable to determine volume label and state. CHKDSK aborted. Also this is a secondary hard drive.
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