Solve : Maxtor Basics Corrupted?

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Answer» I have this Maxtor Basics 500gb external hard drive, which has recently (and suddenly) gone corrupted. I can't open it windows says that it's corrupted and adivcese to format it however, it has a lot of important information on it which I format. I've ran SeaTools, Short & Long dst and short generic. All of which have passed. So I guess the hard drive doesn't have any bad sectors, right? I've tried to run Chkdsk/Error checking (on windows7) however I get the error, . When I try to open the hard drive by clicking on it, it says that it cannot be opened,, the parameter is INCORRECT. At the moment im running Chkdsk /r from command prompt. I've tried some data recovery tools, non of which proved to be useful. Does anyone know the BEST way to recover the data off the hard drive? Since I have a lot of files in it I need a software which can recover the files, almost as it is, in the folders. Free softwares please. Also, if anyone can tell me how to (if it is possible) fix the hard drive then please do Thank you. Quote from: Redcaa on November 20, 2010, 01:49:13 PM ...I've tried some data recovery tools, non of which proved to be useful... Telling us which ones would be helpful.What is new or different since the last time everything worked properly (ie, new hw, new sw, virus, error, etc)?Oh, don't worry guys. It's sorted. Chkdsk /r worked. Gah, it's corrupted again!!! D:&LT; After I ran Chkdsk /r it worked, then I took it out of the laptop (Windows 7) and put it in to the desktop (Windows Xp SP3) and then all of a sudden, doesn't work any more. I ran Chkdsk /f, then Chkdsk /r. After /r I thought it'd work but it didn't. Then I ran Chkdsk to see if there is any problem but it says windows can't detect any problem :O When I put it back in to the laptop it works. Im sure the usb port on the desktop is ok, no extra configurations have been made in the time being, no virus, no extra software installed either! On the XP it says that E: (maxtor) is corrupted and unreadable. Im focusing on how to fix/resolve it. Please help!!! Thanks everyone :3I have externals that exhibit the same behavior from time to time. They can go for months with no problems, then all of a sudden they give errors. They always pass all checks & usually formatting them restores them for a while. The only utility that seems to work for a longer period of time is Spinrite.Hmm, isn't there any other solution? Freeware possibly? Someone lock this please. Im starting a new thread.

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I have this Maxtor Basics 500gb external hard drive, which has recently (and suddenly) gone corrupted. I can't open it windows says that it's corrupted and adivcese to format it however, it has a lot of important information on it which I format. I've ran SeaTools, Short & Long dst and short generic. All of which have passed. So I guess the hard drive doesn't have any bad sectors, right? I've tried to run Chkdsk/Error checking (on windows7) however I get the error, . When I try to open the hard drive by clicking on it, it says that it cannot be opened,, the parameter is INCORRECT. At the moment im running Chkdsk /r from command prompt. I've tried some data recovery tools, non of which proved to be useful.

Does anyone know the BEST way to recover the data off the hard drive? Since I have a lot of files in it I need a software which can recover the files, almost as it is, in the folders. Free softwares please.

Also, if anyone can tell me how to (if it is possible) fix the hard drive then please do

Thank you. Quote from: Redcaa on November 20, 2010, 01:49:13 PM

...I've tried some data recovery tools, non of which proved to be useful...

Telling us which ones would be helpful.What is new or different since the last time everything worked properly (ie, new hw, new sw, virus, error, etc)?Oh, don't worry guys. It's sorted.

Chkdsk /r worked. Gah, it's corrupted again!!! D:&LT;

After I ran Chkdsk /r it worked, then I took it out of the laptop (Windows 7) and put it in to the desktop (Windows Xp SP3) and then all of a sudden, doesn't work any more. I ran Chkdsk /f, then Chkdsk /r. After /r I thought it'd work but it didn't. Then I ran Chkdsk to see if there is any problem but it says windows can't detect any problem :O When I put it back in to the laptop it works. Im sure the usb port on the desktop is ok, no extra configurations have been made in the time being, no virus, no extra software installed either!

On the XP it says that E: (maxtor) is corrupted and unreadable. Im focusing on how to fix/resolve it.
Please help!!!

Thanks everyone :3I have externals that exhibit the same behavior from time to time. They can go for months with no problems, then all of a sudden they give errors. They always pass all checks & usually formatting them restores them for a while. The only utility that seems to work for a longer period of time is Spinrite.Hmm, isn't there any other solution?

Freeware possibly? Someone lock this please. Im starting a new thread.

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