Maxtor 7200 40GB

[ruth29]

I just got this new hard drive in Sept and I am having loads of trouble not sure if its the hard drive or the programs I use but I have to scan for errors all the time I just get it scanned than when my computer restarts it says it has lots of errors I have done both the standard and the thorough the standard it does find errors but not in the thorough.
The thorough one takes so long and my computer won`t start automatically unless I do this.
Have been by passing it but next time restart same thing. Could someone explain why I get so many errors and what it is from. thanks

[Force Flow]

What O/S are you running?

Try downloading and running adaware and spybot on your machine. If you don't have any AV protection, you should download AVG and run a virus scan.

[ruth29]

I am using win 98 se and I have run spy boot and adware and I do have virus protection have run that so am hoping maybe it will be ok now will let you know if I keep having problems. I only had 42 adware and they were all due to my searching on the internet.

[glc]

Go to Maxtor's support site and download Powermax. Use this to run diagnostics on the drive.

[ruth29]

Thanks I did that and my hard drive is ok seemed to get it working properly again was a software program that wasn`t working properly caused my hard drive to get errors on it I think I have that conquered as well.Nice to know Maxtor has a disk out to check its hard drive .