Hi Guys

I tried to defrag my Maxtor SATA hard drive (storage not OS). Half way through there was an error and defrag stopped. I got a few error messages saying that certain files could not be saved.

I re-booted the machine and this is where it all went wrong. If I go into the bios during boot the motherboard (ASUS A8V) says it cannot see the drive (not detected). Once Windows boots (XP Pro) I can see the drive in My Computer but if I try to click on it (left or right) it just times out.

Please help as I dont want to loose the data on this drive.

Hi Gweilo,

Welcome to PCHF. We have an amazing group of techs on this site with a wide variety of computer knowledge. I am sure that we will be able to help you.

Unfortunately, hardware is not my area of expertise, I am sure that one of the hardware gurus will be along shortly to assist you.

TTFN

LGW

Hi there gweilo and welcome to PCHF

Could you try and boot your computer into safemode and run a scandisk on that hard drive.