i use 2 hd, a 40gb WD as primary and the secondary (no OS) a 20gb maxtor. and now the maxtor has gone blank on me. empty, 100% free space.
this happened. i was watching a video on the maxtor when suddenly the video stuttered then hanged. no response fm the keyboard or mouse. only thing i could do was press reset on my casing. when the pc restarted it automatically gave the message to checkdisk the maxtor drive (f:\) so i let it. but it got stuck at some stage (forgot which stage), no response for a long time, more than 1 hour.
so again i pressed reset button on the case and now in windows the drive is empty. diskmgmt says its healthy but 100% free space and unformatted. before it was around 70% full. this harddisk has never given me pblms before.
i use win xp sp2 and the maxtor was formatted in fat32 before it want blank.
i'm guessing the data is still there but somehow windows can't read it. can someone help me on this?
thanks...
this happened. i was watching a video on the maxtor when suddenly the video stuttered then hanged. no response fm the keyboard or mouse. only thing i could do was press reset on my casing. when the pc restarted it automatically gave the message to checkdisk the maxtor drive (f:\) so i let it. but it got stuck at some stage (forgot which stage), no response for a long time, more than 1 hour.
so again i pressed reset button on the case and now in windows the drive is empty. diskmgmt says its healthy but 100% free space and unformatted. before it was around 70% full. this harddisk has never given me pblms before.
i use win xp sp2 and the maxtor was formatted in fat32 before it want blank.
i'm guessing the data is still there but somehow windows can't read it. can someone help me on this?
thanks...