Re: Hard disk becomes floppy

From: "Rob v. Albada" <tisme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

|
| The last few days, the folowing happened:
|

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|
| In English:
|
| Cannot write to the diskette in station E:
| Data or files are possibly lost.
| Press a key to continue.
|
| Now E: is NOT a diskette station, but a hard disk.
| For whatever reason, CHKDSK (Windows version) seems to 'think' that it
| is a diskette station.
|
| When I restart the computer, my virus scanner (F-Prot) finds nothing
| wrong, I can access E: and all the files are there again. Until the
| next crash.
|
| What may be the cause and how can I cure it?
|
| My computer has a rather newish Intel mainboard with a 3 GB Pentium 4
| and 2 hard drives.
| The OS is Windows-98SE which has been running for years now. (I will
| not downgrade to Windows XP, because it does not support my home grown
| DOS programs under any circumstances. These programs are essential for
| my work.)
|
| Kind regards,
|
| Rob van Albada in stormy Amsterdam.
|

Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic software
respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard disk is bad or
not..

Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
http://support.wdc.com/download/

Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Seagate - SeaTools
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/

Samsung - Disk manager
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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