having harddrive issues
 

im having some harddrive issues with this new 120 gb maxtor drive. any help will be of great assistance 33176397

Return it and buy a decent brand. :2 cents:

maxtor is pretty good. better than western digital

format c:

grrrrr :(

GOD DAMN IT
So am I.

I am seriously about to format C:

I'm so fucking pissed.

LOL...:thumbsup

OK.

EVERY...Did I say EVERY...cause I meant EVERY Maxtor drive I have EVER had has been a peice of shit.

I have never had a problem with a Western Digital or an IBM hard drive.

Currently running multiple Western Digital 100 and 200GB special edition drives and they are rock solid.

Thats odd.. I repair computers and most drive problems I have encountered were western digital drives. I run 2 maxtors 60gigs 24/7 and they have been problem free for 2 years (touch wood). I had a western digital and it frapped on me in a year and a half. But they seem to be getting better nowadays. shrugs

TDF, did you fix your issue yet? care to post what's wrong?

nothing comes close to WD...shut ur asses people!...i run 3 WD hard drives for 3years now...sizes range from 20-80gigz...never failed once...7200rpm...you people need to learn how to use your computers...

:1orglaugh

I rember back in 95ish...... Packard Bell had more repair problems then AST. But then again...Packard Bell sold how many times more PC's than AST?

Not to say that PB ever made a decent product either but my point is that there are more WD drives in PC's than Maxtor drives so you are bound to see more problems.

The last time I used a maxtor drive, my Pentium 166 was top of the line. Friends and family have also used them over the years and most of them had issues too.

Whats learning how to use computers have to do with this?

well for some odd reason my computer isnt finding my new drive to be my slave drive, it keeps trying to make it my primary drive and my current drive the slave drive

Typical of a slave. They never know their place.

Dare I tell you to check the obvious things??? Like jumper settings?

NOW HERE THIS:

never use Partition Magic to move your shit around and reallocate space. It has fucked me up the ass with a red hot poker and there is no recovering.

Partition a hard drive? Haven't done that since they came out with a bios to support larger drives.

Using Jumpers:
make your cd rom your master, setting the jumper to master
make your c: drive slave setting jumper to slave
make your secondary master drive master by setting jumper to master, secondary slave set it to slave

Cable Select
Set the jumper on both your CD rom and c: drive to Cable Select (CS)
Make sure your primary IDE cable has the black plug to your CDRom (master) and the grey plug goes to your harddrive (slave).
With jumpers set to cable select the black plug will always be detected as master, and the grey plug will always be slave

fuckin gateway says they cant help because it wasnt a harddrive that was originally on the computer!:feels-hot :feels-hot and now ICQ is giving me c++ errors!!

Uh oh...maybe wipe ICQ (back it up first) get all your drives going and reinstall ICQ...

fuckkkkkkkkk..ICQ wont load now.. *sigh* I think I will have to format c :(