Maxtor Drive

[siclilmonkey]

hey i think i have a faulty Maxtor HDD

i have recived a pc from a friend, windows instalaton is broke i have tryed to repair the install but i get a bsod when it installes the devices in xp setup.

i am not 100% sure it is the HDD so i need some software to test

i have tryed the Maxtor software but as the hdd is an SATA drive the tools i require do not work with SATA drives.

is far as i can tell i dont think im missing anything with the software.

what i need is some software that can be booted of a cd or floppy to test the hdd.

i have put the hdd in my pc and tryed scandisk and defrag but no luck.

i am going to try one of my spare ide drives in the pc to try and confirm its the drive.

Thanks Steve

 

[siclilmonkey]

any idear how i un do that lol

 

[siclilmonkey]

ta i shall give it a go

 

[siclilmonkey]

well tried that still did not detect the hdd

i tried one of my spare HDDs and the pc still did not work so i think its the mobo

thanks for all your help