Maxter 120gig in need of help plz

[PottaCoola]

i got my pc upgraded and needed to format my hard drive its a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 120Gb 7200rpm 8mb Cache ATA133 - OEM got some time ago and its been good till now but its my own fult, while it was formating i turned the pc off by mistake (was trying to get a msi sticker off and its close to the button) now i cant format or install any windows drivers. is there anyway of getting this hard drive to work or do i need a new one?

thanks

[orion456]

i got my pc upgraded and needed to format my hard drive its a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 120Gb 7200rpm 8mb Cache ATA133 - OEM got some time ago and its been good till now but its my own fult, while it was formating i turned the pc off by mistake (was trying to get a msi sticker off and its close to the button) now i cant format or install any windows drivers. is there anyway of getting this hard drive to work or do i need a new one?

thanks

You have probably damaged the MBR (master boot record). Not a problem.

Depends on which OS you are using. Boot from your CDROM in WinXP and select the recovery consol. Then run fixmbr should make the disk partitionable and then formatable. Here is a link from microsoft about the MBR.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ldau.asp

If you have windows 98 then run "fdisk /mbr" to fix it. Then repartition and format.

[PottaCoola]

thanks ill try it now, just to let you know when i try to format it says "format not supported on drive c" and fdisk it says "no fixed disks present and im on windows xp

i just got to it and when i type fixmbr nothing happends?

[orion456]

thanks ill try it now, just to let you know when i try to format it says "format not supported on drive c" and fdisk it says "no fixed disks present and im on windows xp

how do i run recovery consol?

Just boot onto your CDROM using winxp and it will ask you if you want to install a new disk or recover an old one. You choose recover and it will boot into the recovery console. Then you just run "Fixmbr" in the DOS screen it sets up. Nothing will appear to happen but it has just fixed the MBR. Then use "DiskPart" to make a new partition and finally run "Format".

[PottaCoola]

are cool it worked thanks, thats one of my big proplems out of the way, check out ati forums for my other one. dont know if anyone can solve it tho.