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Hard Drive not appearing in My Computer
Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this.
I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200. Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer restart the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive. I went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy, and this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will not boot the computer :-( Says not bootable. I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way. If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it shows the drive detected when booting up. BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear in DOS. I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious data that I need to recover at least. |
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Hi Jim,
What model do you have? Hd "Jim" wrote in message ... Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this. I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200. Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer restart the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive. I went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy, and this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will not boot the computer :-( Says not bootable. I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way. If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it shows the drive detected when booting up. BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear in DOS. I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious data that I need to recover at least. |
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Model 5T020H2
"HddGuru" wrote in message om... Hi Jim, What model do you have? Hd "Jim" wrote in message ... Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this. I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200. Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer restart the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive. I went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy, and this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will not boot the computer :-( Says not bootable. I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way. If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it shows the drive detected when booting up. BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear in DOS. I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious data that I need to recover at least. |
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