Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

"Porpoise" <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:21:14 +0100
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"Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Porpoise wrote:

>
> It's a Maxtor external drive, and their diagnostic software doesn't cover 
> external drives.  :-/  I'll have to search around their site.

You can take it out of the casing and connect it up to the internal IDE 
channel in your PC, if their software doesn't handle a drive connected to 
USB or firewire interfaces (which surprises me).

Actually, just looked on their site and it seems they do have SW for their 
external drives:

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.8db0c3d6932ced37294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads