hey.
i have a 320 gigabyte portable external hard-drive. it's a maxtor.
lately i have been having problems with it
it says it has 283MB free space (which i'd expect)
but when i try to delete something off it, it still says 283MB free.
i have tried restarting pc and unplugging the phd.
i did try a disk check, it says "the drive F: contains an invalid parametre"
and it also says it can only do the diskcheck in "read-only-mode"
i can't re-format cause i have no where for the files to go.
is there any-way to fix it?
oh by the way i have ran a disk check on it before this happened and it said something about corrupt indexes and clusters.
thankyou
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All fans PWM; speeds at idle: CPU circa 500 rpm; intake circa 600 rpm; exhaust circa 600 rpm; CPU temps 27 idle and 47 C load in a warm room (27 C/81 F) when running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility stress test.
i don't think maxtor has a disk check utility.
all i want to know is: is there a way to make it so i can delete stuff from it, and make it move from 283MB free space.
I would go to Seagate.com and see what relevant utilities I could find.
The drive isn't going to fix itself. It obviously has some significant problems.
You could give up on it and buy another. You can pound Google for people with similar problems. You can live with the problem. You could see if you can run checkdisk with other switches.
Maxtor hasn't been in business for several years, so the drive just may be dying of old age.
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Ignatz Special; 4 speed manual gearbox; factory air conditioning; one of one
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AsRock Z170M Extreme 4, micro ATX
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All fans PWM; speeds at idle: CPU circa 500 rpm; intake circa 600 rpm; exhaust circa 600 rpm; CPU temps 27 idle and 47 C load in a warm room (27 C/81 F) when running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility stress test.
Make sure your data is safe. That drive looks like it has a corrupted file system, backup your data- at least the critical files. If necessary , use a utility like Recuva. If you dont have any space on your computer, backup to dvd or buy a new external. Format the Maxtor after that.
Its not a very good idea to cramp the drive with almost 100% data.
