Hi I have a Maxtor 200g sata drive that is connected as a secondary hard drive and has quit responding. Before it quit, there was a windows error that my wife seen that had the exclamation point in a yellow triangle that said "error writing to a .mts file, or something to that nature. The bios is recognizing the drive, but upon reboot windows will not fully load, it goes from the windows xp splash screen and loading bar, to a blank screen, so I can not evaluate it in windows, not even from safe mode. If I disable the sata adapter in the bios, windows loads fine. I tried erd disk commander, and the drive shows up as 0mb raw data, but commander gives an error "cannot mount drive". I tried to boot knoppix from cd, and knoppix will also not fully boot unless the sata adapter is disabled. I opened the computer case and the drive sounds like it is operational, without any scratching or cluncking, so I don't think the damage is physical. Any help would be greatly appreciated for this drive has some extremely valuable content. Thank you.

Drive recognized as 0MB in BIOS?

Firmware/SA problem. You won't fix this yourself.

The error was probably "Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file D:\$Mft".

If the drive is recognized to its full capacity, could be firmware error, bad sectors, or both. If it's recognized to full capacity and just has bad sectors, that would be the least expensive problem.

bad sectors. don't run chkdsk or dont let run scan, cancel it.
try to image. if not success meet a professional.

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At this point it could be relatively inexpensive repair, but if you run this disk you will end up paying big bucks or ruin your data.

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