Nerwin Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 I have a maxtor 160 Gb hard drive and i think it's dead becasue windows xp wont even install right on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 explain... are there any stange sound? have you tried formatting it? have you tested in on another machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerwin Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 yeah i tried it on another pc still dont work, i reformated it i dont know how many times. It just still dont work. and when i go to install windows Xp pro on it and it says that theres a problem with the cd but there is nothen wrong with the cd becasue it work on other hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 where does it give that error? when it is copying over the i386 directory? if so then im pretty sure that the hdd is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerwin Posted October 25, 2005 Author Share Posted October 25, 2005 yes there were it starts having a error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbrit Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Try www.maxtor.com and look for Powermax 4.21 ISO image, this will self boot and run full diags on your HD.I will try and paste the URL but it seems this site truncates.BigBrit http://maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menui...&downloadID=113 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerwin Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 thanks i'll try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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