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My computer is relatively 'old', it was bought in June of 2002 from MDG.
I'm running Windows XP Pro on it, it has 512 MB of ram, 1.5GhzProcessor running on a P4.
I recently bought " Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB IDE ATA133 7200RPM 16MB 9MS FDB RoHS Hard Drive", as the one that came with the computer was a 40GB Maxtor drive that simply wasn't large enough anymore, I was tired of having 5GB of hard drive space, and backing up my movies with that space, deleting the files, and starting over with the same process again.
After 3 weeks use with this drive I received a 'read error' message upon powering on my system. After approximately 3 days of attempting to re-install windows which would allow it work temporarily, and then it would start up saying a certain system file was missing (mostly the ever important dll files) and I couldn't start it.
I tried booting my system with my older 40GB drive as the master and the 250GB as a slave which seemed to work intermittently. Sometimes this newer (250GB) drive would show up on 'my computer' as unformatted, and the next time it would be read fine, with all my files intact.
I took the drive back to NCIX (computer store where I purchased said drive) and the technician informed me the drive works perfectly fine, and that I must upgrade my BIOS.
This is what I would like to do. I am just curious, because I was actually using the drive earlier yesterday until it decided to freeze while I was browsing through some of my recently copied over mp3 files, so I restarted and when I tried opening the drive to view my files it informed me it was unformatted, and when clicking on properties it says it is in RAW file format with 0 bytes available and 0 bytes free.
This message has happened before and the drive ended up working as quickly as a few hours later.
How do I find out if I can upgrade my motherboard BIOS? I don't even know how to figure out what kind of Motherboard it is, MDG hasn't answered any of my emails...I may have to take it in for them to figure it out, but the warranty is long gone.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, whether there is some sort of application that can tell me what kind of BIOS I am using, or if someone knows how to get MDG to help, etc.. if updating the BIOS would solve anything? My understanding was that if my motherboard BIOS required upgrading; the drive would never have worked on it to begin with. Nevermind 3 weeks of perfect usage, followed by the most frustrating few weeks in recent memory.
Thanks for your time, guys. I apologize for my lack of knowledge and
also for my long-winded message, this is just incredibly frustrating.
Cheers.
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