[pchelpers] DIRMS

I was running a 3rd party defragger called DIRMS ( Do it right 
microsoft) when i got an I/O error.
The computer locked down and I had to do a hard reboot. It took 20 min 
to get to the desktop.
The bios sees the hard-drive that i was defragging. Windows Explorer 
sees the hard-drive, now
with a new name ( was SATAMAX and now it is local disk) but it will not 
open. I checked
computer management and the drive is not listed. Being a Maxtor drive I 
thought I check it
out with PowerMax. But found out that the new PowerMax 4.21 will not see 
a SATA drive
connected to a embedded controller on a motherboard. So I can't see if 
it can repair the drive,
or get an error code to report for the warranty. I tried the Easy 
Recovery disk diagnostic and
after the first 10 I/O errors it gave up and told me to replace the drive.

I then ran Spinrite on it. It spent 4 hours recovering the data on the 
first cluster only, so I gave
up on that. I would love to run a check disk on it through the Recovery 
console. But i need a
floppy disk with the SATA drivers so that it can see the drive. But for 
the life of me I can't
find the motherboard cd that would create that driver disk.

Now it is time to get my data off of this drive and think of something 
later. I used my Easy Recovery
Pro 6.09. Works like it suppose to do. It sees all my drives (4) even 
the bad SATA one.
Now I'm suppose to chose which files to move to another partition to be 
saved. Only the partition
choice is drive a: or the ram disk c:. So I go back to the hard drive ID 
scan and see that for
the drives it says that my system drive (c primary master 1) and the 
other IDE drive (e: primary master 2)
is in an unknown file format. That is why it won't give me those drive 
as an option to recover to.
Then I have the SATA drive (add-on primary master 1) in the NTFS format. 
and the other SATA drive
(Add-on primary master 2) the bad drive. NTFS format. It won't give me 
the SATA drive as an
option to move my data to. My two IDE drives are partitioned in the NTFS 
format, so why can't
EasyR see this. I ended up taking a spare 60GB drive and formating it as 
FAT 32. Now EasyR sees
this drive and I can now recover all my data. It took 8 hours to recover 
50GB of data that I had on
the drive.

So now what do I do with this drive? I would love to find a way to 
re-partition and format it to see
if that fixes it. Or should I give up on it and see if i can get a 
warranty replacement. It is a Maxtor
SATA 120gb drive that fixing to be a year old.

Pc


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