Anyone got a spare IDE machine sitting around with Windows on it?

[solarbird]

Anybody local got a spare Wintel machine with an IDE controller in it? If you do, do you mind horribly if I come install a b0rken drive and run Maxtor's idiotic little drive tester? Maxtor won't let me return this bad drive without running their Windows-only diagnostic toy to say, "yep! it's br0ke!" And the only Windows box we have around here that isn't a laptop is SCSI-only.

(HI YES I REALLY DO KNOW IT HAS SURFACE ERRORS, IT SAID SO BEFORE IT DIED. KTHXFKU.)

Alternatively, if anyone knows the eight-digit PowerMax diagnostic code for "yes, this drive is, in fact, fucked," I'd take that too. Thanks.

Comments

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

. . . actually, yeah.

Call me on my cell.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

in the maxtor rma, just say that the system doesn't recognize the disk. then it won't ask you for an error code.

[solarbird]

Tried that - it asked anyway. :-p

[solarbird]

oh good, thanks.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i don't have a within-warranty dead disk to try this with right here, but there is a way to tell it that the system shows no sign of having a drive attached, and you can use that. (i've done; you can't get a powermax code that way.)

if you can't find it, call their support # and tell them the system doesn't admit there's a drive attached.