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ViperFang
05-11-2008, 01:47 AM
I have a Maxtor 60G installed as my primary slave drive.
System BIOS is able to identify the drive but Windows 98 can't see it.
Norton Disk Doctor reports "error on hard disk 2 master partition table is unreadable the master partition table is physically damaged"
Is it possible that my IDE cable has failed?
Or could it a boot-sector virus?
Any advice/suggestion would be much appreciated
pandaz3
05-11-2008, 02:44 AM
I am not a storage expert, but it seems likely you have a HHD going bad. My 60 G Maxtor failed a couple of years ago. There are still anabundance of IDE drives available (I have a 500 G Seagate...IDE)

You might be able to save your data or redo the boot sector just hard to say.


You don't post all that often do you.
Sterling_Aug
05-11-2008, 08:46 AM
It does sund more like a hard drive going bad.

Try running a drive diagnostics utility to test.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154817