80GB ATA Maxtor Drive not working

[IceQB]

Anyone know how i could get it up and running. The drive does not even spin-up when plugged in. Have tried a diff sys board from another Maxtor 80GB drive, drive starts up but reports as 200GB!!
seems i need exact firmware to make it come alive.
anyone else have any ideas as to how i could rescue the info from this drive?

[nOhIwAy]

Hi feverdj,

send me a pm with the details, sure I can help here.

[jjtoymachine]

Maxtor allways give ****, ive lost 3 in the last two years.

[GuRu]

Maxtor allways give ****, ive lost 3 in the last two years.

I have 6 running 24/7 and no problems all 80 gig Maxtors and 2 x 40 gig.
All depends on the setup : correct PSU ? / cooling / move the pc around to Lan Games ?
check out this link for PSU requirements http://www.casemodgod.com/psu_calculator.htm

[freeek]

maxtors ..... best performance drives ..... ****test life drives
performance vs quality (long life)

[IceQB]

**** dat
maxtors r ****
came across 3 80gb that ****ed up in same week mine bombed

[jjtoymachine]

i rule i have...only buy seagate, they are reliable and come with 5 year warranty

[Megabyte]

I used to have a RAID array of 4x80GB Maxtor Drives , one by one they all went phut. I have an older (much) older seagate which is still going strong.

The Maxtor (and especially the Diamond Max Range 80GB model) do (did) have a bad reputation. Can't say whether that's improved with todays models but too scared to try now (once bitten).

[Nicholas]

Anyone know how i could get it up and running. The drive does not even spin-up when plugged in. Have tried a diff sys board from another Maxtor 80GB drive, drive starts up but reports as 200GB!!
seems i need exact firmware to make it come alive.
anyone else have any ideas as to how i could rescue the info from this drive?

If it is an external drive the drive getting a new case or try put your drive in someone elses case

[Nicholas]

i rule i have...only buy seagate, they are reliable and come with 5 year warranty

I can get maxtor hard drives with a three year warranty so seagate are not the only ones with a warranty. Plus maxtor drives are reliable.

[bb_matt]

Lost two Maxtor drives myself.

I've still got the 80gig one - AFAIK, the controller card is still functioning.
It's a "Maxtor diamondmax plus 9, 80GB ATA / 133 HDD", LBA: 160086528

If you can get to Randburg in Joburg, feverdj, it's yours !
Right now, it's a big paperweight.
PM if you want it - not prepared to drop it off or ship it anywhere tho.
Also, entirely at your own risk - if you swap out the controller cards and it bombs out your drive etc.

[daysleeper]

my experience:


1. Seagate (excellent relaibility / average performance)
2. Western Digital (good reliability / excellent performance)
3. IBM
4. Samsung
5. Toshiba
6. Exelstor
7. Fugistu (stay away if possible) (used in dells and they are crap)
8. Maxtor (the worst) (not reliable / excellent performance)


I stand to be corrected tho!

[Ghatto]

my experience:


1. Seagate (excellent relaibility / average performance)
2. Western Digital (good reliability / excellent performance)
3. IBM
4. Samsung
5. Toshiba
6. Exelstor
7. Fugistu (stay away if possible) (used in dells and they are crap)
8. Maxtor (the worst) (not reliable / excellent performance)


I stand to be corrected tho!

Must agree. Same experience.

[Gambit]

2. Western Digital (good reliability / excellent performance)
3. IBM

Even though there were some dodgy western digitals back in the day when hard drives were between 1 and 6 gigs, I've had very good service from my western digital's through the years and rate them very highly. I've heard good things about seagates but i never really liked them in the past because I found them really noisy. I now have a couple Seagates and they are very quiet and perform well.

The 70 gig IBM deskstar hard drives were so unreliable that they are well known as "deathstars" . Apparently IBM no longer make harddrives and sold off their HDD business to Hitachi.

[Perdition]

I had one of those Deathstars, in fact it packed up just a few months ago and I lost my entire MP3 and vid collection (cause I'm an ass and didn't think it was important enough to back up... lesson learned).

Anyway after IBM's drive division was sold to Hitachi things have improved a LOT and Hitachi drives are amongst the fastest and most reliable drives on the market now. I'm actually getting a couple of Hitachi's next week even though I was burned by IBM, that's how much faith I have in them.

I also rate Western Digital, excellent performers and very reliable. I've had many of their drives over the years and not one problem.

Seagates are decent drives, can't really go wrong with them and they have a 5 year warranty.

I haven't had any Maxtors but almost everyone I've known who've had them have horror stories, so I'm staying well away from them.