maxtor drive issue

[dep]

begin  Richard R. Sivernell's  quote:

|    You more than likely know as much as I do on this, but can you
| do a cfdisk or fdisk remotely. If not is it possiible to tell her
| how. Maybe just getting a partition and a active mark might be all
| you need. That is what I would do if all things considered allow
| this. Seems I have had to do this before on a couple of drives.

based on stuff i've been able to glean from various sources, the 
answer, seems to me, is for her to take the drive back and to get a 
drive that works, rather than a windisk. (though, actually, these 
things do not work all that well with windows, apparently, either.) 
maxtor's share price dropped by 25 percent yesterday alone, which 
given this state of affairs neither surprises nor saddens me.
-- 
dep

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