I have Nikimi NIK-XD200A, 20GB drive. I had 3 partitions on it. Drive was having 8 bad sectors on it but was working nicely.

One day, it wasn't able to boot from its primary partition. All the info about primary partition was invisible. The other 2

partitions were accessible for about 2-3 times after which they were also not detected.

Ultimately only bios was able to detect the drive but the drive was missing from windows and fdisk.

I tried mhdd & found that out of about 40million sectors, from 0 to 10million were having lots of bad sectors(almost 80-90%)

& and a total of 8 places it said 'Damaged drive' and threw me out of the program.

I booted from win98, used magic recovery & recovered the important data from the clean area between 10-40million.

What should I do?

I am planning to use "makebad" command and make bad sectors around the damaged area. Hoping this will let me use the better

portion of drive.

Also note that in mhdd the serial no. of drive is coming all zeroes, is it okay?!!

Documentation of software only gives brief tip about the commands, where can I have detailed info about all the commands?

Hoping some of you can guide me through my problems.

Premal

Here is the screenshot :

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50 ERR INDX CORR DREQ DRSC WRFT DRDY BUSY AMNF T0NF ABRT IDNF UNCR BBK 00
[Nikimi NIK-XD200A ] [ 40,020,624] [ ] [ ]


To get help press <F1> or type "HELP"


Nikimi NIK-XD200A LBA:40,020,624 BIOS
SN:00000000000000000000 FW:WAH21PB0 CACHE:2048KB Size = 19541MB
To see enhanced information, use command EID <SHIFT+F2>
Init drive: Done



| View SMART attributes : <F8> | 06:11:17
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SMART ATT is not there as it was showing "Drive Error"

Kindly advise.

Premal

This is _refubrished_ Maxtor Athena proc. DSP. No! You need to repair a disk.

Valera, you have been correct, now my drive has started identifying itself as Maxtor Athena. But the sorry part is that only MHDD is identifying it, no other software is able to detect the drive, even BIOS in auto detect mode can't find it.

MHDD is also not doing much except that it says drive damaged.

Any help???