"Al" <Al@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hey all, I have an 80 and 60 Gig Maxtor Hard Drive. The 80 Gig one has my
>system files and works okay, the 60 gig one is a data disk. If I try to boot
>up with the 60 gig drive in as a slave (like I have done for years) the
>computer fails to start and tells me that it cant read from the slave drive.
>
>I heard about HDD Regenerator, and Hirens Boot Disk...but not sure about the
>legality of either. Either way, I downloaded HDD Regenerator but my floppy
>drive doesnt work, and the iso couldnt be burned onto a bootable cd. When I
>tried in nero to make a bootable cd it asked me to instal a "bootable
>diskette" into drive a:
>
>I have been experiencing system failures recently, and my motherboard, cpu,
>ram and graphics card are all new, so I suspect my master hd could have
>errors too.
>
>Basically, is there any legal and trustworthy program available to help me
>fix a hard drive of any make? The maxtor utilities didnt specify any such
>software...and max blast 4 couldnt detect any maxtor hds...but I think it was
>just a hard drive installer utility.
>
>Thanks for any help and suggestions.
>Alex

The best available product for repairing/recovering bad sectors on a
hard drive is Spinrite from Gibson Research (www.grc.com) However
purchasing Spinrite will probably cost as much or more than a new hard
drive so unless there is some critical information that you need to
recover from the 60 gb drive you are probably better off purchasing a
new drive.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca