the drive is a maxtor 200gb...
I had 5 of them and all 5 got the partitions corrupted.....
I forgot what the exact problem was, but it has to do with a problem in windows xp sp2...
I was able to recover all the partitions except this one, and while the other program was trying to recover it, it somehow reformatted it....
I bought this drive new and only used ntfs partitions.....
as I said before, when the program is almost done, it looks like the entire partition is up there waiting to be copied.....
let me know how you think I should set it, and I'll run it......
it usually takes at least 10 hours......
two other things....
1. windows recognizes this as an unformatted drive.
2. I have to hook this drive up to usb because it will not work as a second drive.
the drive itself is defective, I just want to get the data before it dies altogether...
I have another maxtor 200gb, and I could do a board swap, but I would save that as a last resort.
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