Hope if got the right forum - this is a technical query........
I've got two Maxtor 160gb sata drives in my pc (had for just over a year now) and recently I've been having problems with them.
Sometimes, with no pattern, when I go to the drives either saving or opening a file windows says that the file I'm opening or saving (or the location) has become currupt and all data on the drive becomes no longer visable in windows.......... a few seconds later the whole system freezes. When I reboot windows fails to load, until I turn the PC off then start again and its fine.
When the problem happends, I lose all visability of files on the drive (its happened on both drives now) but when I reboot everything is there.
Is this hard drive issue or could it be the motherboard playing up? anyone else experianced this?
Cheers,
Dan
I've got two Maxtor 160gb sata drives in my pc (had for just over a year now) and recently I've been having problems with them.
Sometimes, with no pattern, when I go to the drives either saving or opening a file windows says that the file I'm opening or saving (or the location) has become currupt and all data on the drive becomes no longer visable in windows.......... a few seconds later the whole system freezes. When I reboot windows fails to load, until I turn the PC off then start again and its fine.
When the problem happends, I lose all visability of files on the drive (its happened on both drives now) but when I reboot everything is there.
Is this hard drive issue or could it be the motherboard playing up? anyone else experianced this?
Cheers,
Dan
