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Dead Hard Drive
- Thread starter willirob
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Not worth it
In my experience it isn't worth your money or trouble to fix it. Except if you had some really important information on it (in which case you can take it to a harddisk recovery centre), smack it in the bin and go buy a new one.
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Just my R.02!
In my experience it isn't worth your money or trouble to fix it. Except if you had some really important information on it (in which case you can take it to a harddisk recovery centre), smack it in the bin and go buy a new one.
Ask Person for prices.
Just my R.02!
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I like the way this man thinks.ebendl said:
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Does the Drive start up when you unplug the ATA\SATA cable ?willirob said:
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then its the drive that is dead
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What size is the HDD ?willirob said:
willirob said:
They usually first try to replace the HDD control, aka the circuit board on the drive. This is most likely what failed in you case. If that does not work, they transfer the platters to another drive. Then they use a fancy program to try to pull all the data off the drive and write it to a bunch of DVD's. How much data you get back depends on what failed and how.
I recently got 'n harddisk filesystem/physical crash as well (STAY AWAY FROM MAXTOR!!), but luckily stuff was still spinning inside. Managed to recover all my data. 
Drive is still in use, but is getting worse everyday. Happened within 6 months after I bought the damn thing, and since it was in the US, I couldn't claim the warrenty.
Drive is still in use, but is getting worse everyday. Happened within 6 months after I bought the damn thing, and since it was in the US, I couldn't claim the warrenty.
nGAGEd55
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not just in the US, dont buy Maxtor at all, so far I'v had three maxtors that have diedClipse said:lesson learned? Dont buy Maxtor drives in the US?
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Here's my Maxtor Drive stats: 378 Sold : 192 : Returned (within 6 months)
nGAGEd55
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ROFL, my 160GB Maxtor failed bout two months ago!Clipse said:
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That's hectic!
I must say, I've been using and selling Maxtors (and Quantums) for years, never had one fail. But then, I've very rarely had drives fail anyway - one exception I can remember being a Fujitsu that was one of the ones in the batch that just died with no warning.