My second partition which had 60gb of data on it dissappeared and appeared blank? the driver name was Media it was changed to local disk, and there was nothing in it. This happened to me before, and after a few days it came back on on its own. below is the error report from the windows event viewer. Event Type: Error Event Source: Disk Event Category: None Event ID: 11 Date: 26/06/2004 Time: 22:02:34 User: N/A Computer: ATHLON Description: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. Data: 0000: 03 00 18 00 01 00 72 00 ......r. 0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À 0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0030: 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ....(... 0038: 02 8f 00 00 03 08 04 00 ....... ----------- Event Type: Error Event Source: atapi Event Category: None Event ID: 5 Date: 26/06/2004 Time: 22:02:34 User: N/A Computer: ATHLON Description: A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. Data: 0000: 0f 06 10 00 01 00 64 00 ......d. 0008: 00 00 00 00 05 00 04 c0 .......À 0010: 03 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 ...?.... 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0030: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ........ HELP ME IF YOU CAN PLEASE, THANKS COMPUTERFREAK1977

This problem has persisited and the drive keeps appearing and disappearing when im restarting, can anyone help please.

Your drive is likely no good anymore. There are diagnostic tools available at most HDD manufacturer's web sites which you can download and throw on a floppy and run to test it to find out for sure.

It is a new Seagate 200gb Drive, I had this problem on a 160gb Maxtor drive twice so had them replaced. I dont think the problem is with the drive unless it is a software one. any help would be appriciated. Thanks ComputerFreak

It is for sure not the hds problems. I thinks it is the controller problem. "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. " Are you using a PCI IDE controller card?? I had a maxtor IDE controler card and it used to give me a lot of trouble. If you are using (or not) I would suggest you to go to a store and "borrow" a new IDE card to test with your hard drives. If it works, run scan disk to fix problem, if any data was lost, use GetMyDataBack for NTFS or FAT32 is up to your drives.

Hi, No i am not using a Pci controller card it is connected as Master to me Asus A7N8X-X Motherboard. It seems to alternate, the drive will be ther full of my data, i will restart and it will say local disk and be blank??? Still trying t sort it out? Lol