My HDD problem

[Jihadjoe]

This is really annoying me now.

My HDD has now twice unpartitioned itself. This is a real pain, as it means that my beautiful computer is out of action at the moment.

What could cause it to do this twice? I mean I have (after the first one) re-created the two partitions I have on the drive, formatted both of them to NTFS and installed XP. I was running XP just long enough for me to instal my drivers and now it has unpartitioned it again and I'm left with a raw, un-formatted, un-partitioned drive.

WHY????!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!

:angry2::shok::angry:

EDIT. fter the first time it did this I did manage to do a bit of data recovery and get back some really inportant photo's from it, so now I can do whatever I want to the drive and not care that much. I am expecting to have to just go out and buy a new one, but I'd rather try everything I can before I do that 'cos I am rather broke at the moment.

EDIT 2. It is a maxtor 160 gig SATA drive.

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