To Laugh or Cry?

[Cyber-Mav]

use proper esaring software. like blanco.

 

[Burly]

Just use Partition Magic - worked for me. This is seriously hilarious.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I see little point in running data erasing tools when there are problems in the file tables. Something is seriously borked.

Of course there are errors in the file allocation tables, you've been trying to overwrite them with random 0s and 1s all day. Again, I'm telling you to just let DBAN run its course.

 

[Will Gill]

@ OP : you should stick to dell's and never ever be able to open the case, you are the trouble maker my mother warned me about as a child.

poor drive

 

[Felix Da Housecat]

I've had a similar problem to this, untill i turned off system restore.

Could this be the cause or a factor of the problem?

 

[GoldenGlory]

Morning, up at the crack of dawn had a nose bleed in the night because i'm very stressed about this. Can't sleep.

Disabled System Restore.
PartitionMagic is Downloading.

If this isn't fixed today i'm going to smash it.

 

[johnson]

has to be a wind up. The guy your selling it to wont know your girlfriend from any other girl.

Just let him knock one out over her and he will soon move on to someone else. Is she memorable?

 

[GoldenGlory]

She is quite memorable they are nice pics

I wish it was a wind-up. I seriously considered altering the auction to say what it includes, but it also has backups of my desktop and documents. I could never let those get into the wrong hands.

Just ran PartitionMagic, deleted the partition, deleted the data using Safe Erase.
Data still exists.

It just seems any changes committed to the file structure are done, but then aren't really done. How is this possible?

Update: tried to convert to FAT32, gave some errors then it stopped. Perhaps the disk is actually physically borked.

 

[agw_01]

I'll say it again, have you tried Zero Filling the drive using a manufacturer tool?

 

[GoldenGlory]

I'll say it again, have you tried Zero Filling the drive using a manufacturer tool?

I tried the Maxtor windows tool, deleted the partition etc, re-appeared.
Trying the Maxtor boot drive thing, see if this will sort it though I doubt anything will now, I think its completely borked. Will take it apart when i've given up.

 

[scott.holmes]

Although this thread is one of THE best i have read in a long time, to me it sounds like your disk is totally fubared. The amount of errors you are getting, with all number of different programs says to me that it is beyond repair.

If u actually did manage to get all the info off, and sold it im pretty sure you'd get an email back once they received it saying it was faulty.

The DBAN program you tried first should have worked, you were told it was going to take a while so why did you reset it? Should have just left it running!

 

[Explicit]

Try this:

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/drivecleanser/

 

[basmic]

Before you burn any more time on those drives, have you ran the full/advanced test with Maxtor's diagnostic software - Maxblast I think it is?

Check to see if the drive is still under warranty. If so, and the drive passed the Maxblast tests with no problems, read the below paragraph. If the drive doesn't pass the tests and is under warranty, RMA the drive to Maxtor.

Get a program to access the drive constantly, sharply bang the drive, but not so much as to dent it. Hopefully the heads will have jumped during access, and damaged the surface. Make sure MaxBlast returns an error, and RMA the drive to Maxtor - job's a good 'un.

Next time, never buy a Maxtor. This is your lesson.

 

[GoldenGlory]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Isn't this fun?

I tried the MaxBlast diagnostic, crashed when detecting drive stage.
Now Zero Filling the drive using MaxBlast 4, 17% should take 3 hours or so.

If that doesnt work, I will try a Linux LiveCD and have a play.
If that doesn't work and no other suggestions I will open it up and post some
pics.

Basmic: Warranty expired last year, else I would

-GoldenGlory

 

[maranello168]

just end the auction and bin the drive (plus the porn)

 

[GoldenGlory]

Sorry to bother you again, still after a hard drive as my old one broke and it had 70GB of porn on it some as you can guess im pretty gutted. Anyway i know some people arent comfortable sharing data so i would be happy if you deleted all the files but would appreciate if you left any porn you have on the disk. If you wanted i could add an extra £5 to the final sale price to make it worth your while. Thanks.

 

[PikeyPriest]

Sorry to bother you again, still after a hard drive as my old one broke and it had 70GB of porn on it some as you can guess im pretty gutted. Anyway i know some people arent comfortable sharing data so i would be happy if you deleted all the files but would appreciate if you left any porn you have on the disk. If you wanted i could add an extra £5 to the final sale price to make it worth your while. Thanks.

Thats brilliant!!! This is the best thread i have ever read in this section!

 

[Foehammer2003]

just end the auction and bin the drive (plus the porn)

That would be morally wrong, you just cant trash that much pron when its an ex, you have to at least make some money out of it

 

[basmic]

Can't believe I didn't say this earler:

TTIUWP

 

[GoldenGlory]

So, I disconnected my boot drive and ran the MaxBlast software on the "infected" drive. It's taken several hours to zero fill the drive. Just connected up my boot drive, got the message "Error Loading OS".

Oh. Reconnect the boot drive (PATA). Turn on.

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

Cheers Microsoft.

edit: failts at Mup.sys during safe mode boot. wont boot any other way just stay at black screen.