My PC has 2 hard drives (a Maxtor IDE 40GB and Seagate 250GB) put on the same ide channel. When i boot it up windows xp shows under hardware manager that the model numbers of the disks are Laxtor and RTxxxxxxx. At the same time i could not access both disks (shown as local disk in my comp.)
i tried to recover files from the maxtor disk (which was successful) and hoped formatting it to NTFS would solve any problem (i have also changed several ide cables). But the second time it booted up only the seagate hard disk got recognized. i used chkdsk /f to fix the maxtor drive but chkdsk told me that MFT on this disk is damaged (something like that). i did reformate it but the same prob. keeps showing up.
can anyone tell me whats causing this. it is very annoying. thanks in advance
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windows xp pro sp1
a64 3200+ @ 1gb corsair ddr ram
asus a8nsli
i tried to recover files from the maxtor disk (which was successful) and hoped formatting it to NTFS would solve any problem (i have also changed several ide cables). But the second time it booted up only the seagate hard disk got recognized. i used chkdsk /f to fix the maxtor drive but chkdsk told me that MFT on this disk is damaged (something like that). i did reformate it but the same prob. keeps showing up.
can anyone tell me whats causing this. it is very annoying. thanks in advance
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windows xp pro sp1
a64 3200+ @ 1gb corsair ddr ram
asus a8nsli