big problem with my h-d

[ludlo]

i couldnt find any forum section that fitted my problem.. but i hope somone can help me anyway.

i have a big problem with my 80gig maxtor disk.
im running on my new 120 seagate now..

when i tried to install win xp on the 80gig maxtor disk i tried to use the built in partition manager in xp installation program, but something failed and i had to reboot my computer with the result of an incomplete partition an the MBR was damaged. now i cant boot from the disk, not even using a boot cd or a boot disk. if i unplug the disk i can boot from a cd or floppy.. but if its connected it hangs after a few seconds after it started to read from the booting source.

so here i am with my 80gigs disk that i cant use, i dont think its broken it must be some way to fix it?

fdisk /mbr dosent work because i cant get to fdisk when my hd is connected...


can someone help me?

thanks!!

 

[GoNz0]

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm, run the fast low level format, it takes a matter of seconds and writes out the MBR, then xp ahould be able to lay a new partition. gl.

 

[GoNz0]

o yeh it belongs in other hardware i think

 

[ludlo]

but i cant boot with anthing when the disk is plugged in =( cant even get to dos...

 

[GoNz0]

the maxtor disk is a bootable recovery tester, if that fails ur drives died

 

[ludlo]

thank you very much, all my problems solved! =)

 

[GoNz0]

 

[ludlo]

do you know how i can set a default setting for every install program to install programs on my f: disk? dont want to have them on the same disk as the os is installed to..

 

[GoNz0]

i answerd it in the other thread