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Hard Drive Problem
Name: Alan Vowles Date: March 20, 2002 at 01:05:07 Pacific
Comment:
My system started to fail when booting into W98. It would go into Scandisk then hang without finishing. Constant attempts and then my system would not even power up. Because I am desperate to get to some data on the drive, I removed it and placed into another working system. The BIOS recognises the drive as a Maxtor 91536D6 and after booting from floppy and typing DIR C: it shows me the contents of the drive. However, when I then use FDISK option 4 to view partition details it reports correctly c: Primary Dos, 14648 bytes, FAT 32, 100% Usage but below says Total Disk Space only 8056 bytes! Why is this? I have connected another drive as a slave to the Maxtor drive and attempted to use Norton Ghost but after completion many hours later I am unable to read the second drive with Invalid Media Type.
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