Re: flaky Seagate 80gig drive

On Oct 2, 10:16 am, John B. Smith <cra...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I bought a 2nd Seagate SATA 80gig for use as a cloning drive. (this is
a bit anal of me as I backup by imaging software, but I once had a
sector go out and my backup image wrote it right back on when I tried
to restore it)

I mounted the drive on SATA5, partitioned and formatted. I then used
Max Blast 5 to clone my c: -> the new 80gig drive. I then disconnected
power and ran without the clone drive.

When next I wanted to clone I connected power to the drive and booted
(on my regualar c: drive). MaxBlast 5 hung up while looking at the
clone drive partition. PartitionMagic7 hung when trying to error check
it. DiskManagement was unable to delete the partiion and hung.

Using SeagateDOS Tools diskette I  resized it. Then I could boot to
Windows and delete the partition. Back to SeagateTools, size partition
back to 80gig. Format. Put clone drive on SATA6 connector. MaxBlast 5
to clone c;->the clone. Unhook drive's power.

Today I hooked power back on the clone drive, booted SeagateDOS Tools
diskette and ran the long test on clone drive ok. Booted Windows. It
said it had installed 'new hardware' but might not run right till I
rebooted. I did reboot,, ran Windows error check ok on clone drive.
Brought up MaxBlast 5, it hung looking at the clone drive.
PartitionMagic7 will hang on it. Locked out of DiskManagement
completely.

Does this sound like a bad drive, or am I doing something wrong? If it
is the drive, is there a test that will prove it? Could Windows be
screwing it up when it 'adds hardware'?

This sounds like something that would happen if you had the MaxBlast
drive overlay interfering with Windows' native handling of the drive.
.

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