hard drive keeps disappearing or changing letters

Jaeson Merrill · 12th October 2004

since i got this drive, a 250 gig maxtor, i have had weird problems....

I had to install this Drive overlay something or other, that loads up after BIOS, something like "ontrack" or something...

and it sees the drive, most times..

i have the partitions BFD(U);Recording(R);Giga(G);and Samples (S) ...

then when ill reboot, i see in the screen wheere it autodetects drives , sometimes it will be like:

instead of Maxtor250LE or whatever

it will be MAXTORrgojgo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and then the drive wont initialize in windows

im given an option to initialize it in disk management, but im afraid ill lose my data, in case of maybe some sort of geometry inconsistency or something, maybe im just paranoid..

anyway..

the only way to get it all back is to restart, then it will (usually) be fine.

now, sometimes when i restart, it changes the drive letters back to Recording (E) BFD(G) Samples(H)... all wrong!!!!

then i have to go in disk management again and changes the drive letters..

onething im wondering if somehow, maybe the CMOS battery is bad and it keeps forgetting the drive is there??? THe PC is 3.5 years old..

anyone have any thoughts?

all the data is fine.. for now (i double backup often)

sadworld · 12th October 2004

i just built a new system and my cd rom dissapeared (under "my computer") i just unplugged the power from the rom and plugged in one of the other ones (coming from the psupply) strangely it worked... th'at would be too easy though, for you, wouldn't it? try it.

12th October 2004	#1
Jaeson Merrill Gear interested Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7 Thread Starter	hard drive keeps disappearing or changing letters since i got this drive, a 250 gig maxtor, i have had weird problems.... I had to install this Drive overlay something or other, that loads up after BIOS, something like "ontrack" or something... and it sees the drive, most times.. i have the partitions BFD(U);Recording(R);Giga(G);and Samples (S) ... then when ill reboot, i see in the screen wheere it autodetects drives , sometimes it will be like: instead of Maxtor250LE or whatever it will be MAXTORrgojgo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and then the drive wont initialize in windows im given an option to initialize it in disk management, but im afraid ill lose my data, in case of maybe some sort of geometry inconsistency or something, maybe im just paranoid.. anyway.. the only way to get it all back is to restart, then it will (usually) be fine. now, sometimes when i restart, it changes the drive letters back to Recording (E) BFD(G) Samples(H)... all wrong!!!! then i have to go in disk management again and changes the drive letters.. onething im wondering if somehow, maybe the CMOS battery is bad and it keeps forgetting the drive is there??? THe PC is 3.5 years old.. anyone have any thoughts? all the data is fine.. for now (i double backup often)

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12th October 2004	#2
sadworld Gear maniac Joined: May 2004 Location: bay city michigan Posts: 262	i just built a new system and my cd rom dissapeared (under "my computer") i just unplugged the power from the rom and plugged in one of the other ones (coming from the psupply) strangely it worked... th'at would be too easy though, for you, wouldn't it? try it.