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Maxtor Gone! (detection prob)

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Name: Ne0rNe
Date: September 18, 2006 at 14:36:01 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: 1024
Product: Intel
Comment:

Hi Gyus... I really need you here...
Anyway... I have a Maxtor 30GB and I put it on another computer to copy some files. As it was copying it stopped and came an error that my drive was removed. So my Maxtor was dissappeard from My Computer and Device Manager. Made a restart and wasn't recognized by BIOS. So since then I've tried everything switching jumpers, changing cables, resseting bios. What can I do?

Thx



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Response Number 1
Name: wanderer
Date: September 18, 2006 at 14:43:29 Pacific
Reply:

replace the drive.

Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.


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Response Number 2
Name: Ne0rNe
Date: September 18, 2006 at 14:44:57 Pacific
Reply:

I Can't I have valuable information on that disk!


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Response Number 3
Name: Wombat
Date: September 18, 2006 at 14:51:04 Pacific
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Ne0rNe says, I Can't I have valuable information on that disk!

Another I did not make backups type post. When are people going to learn that making backup will stop a lot of disappointment.

Make backups people...

Quote: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!


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Response Number 4
Name: per
Date: September 18, 2006 at 14:58:30 Pacific
Reply:

Try this
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Test...

Or spinrite 6.0. Spinrite may take many hours but almost always recovers the data.


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Response Number 5
Name: efs2
Date: September 18, 2006 at 15:03:04 Pacific
Reply:

Greetings:
Just in case the drive isn't dead and gone, download and run the Maxtor HDD diagnostic utilities, PowerMax 4.23. There is a chance that it will see the drive and be able to give you some information.

http://tinyurl.com/nu98w

Good luck.
Ed


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Response Number 6
Name: Sabertooth
Date: September 18, 2006 at 15:07:05 Pacific
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....and stay away from Maxtors - doesn't mean you shouldn't backup.


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Response Number 7
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: September 18, 2006 at 15:28:46 Pacific
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Sinrite is as good as it gets, but if the HD won't spin up and initialize you're out of room to manuver.

Put the HD on a KNOWN GOOD cable by itself; no other drives in the box. Do NOT use cable select.



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Response Number 8
Name: wanderer
Date: September 18, 2006 at 16:27:13 Pacific
Reply:

you HAD valuable information on it.

There are services you can send the drive to and they can recover your data from the platters but its not cheap.

Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.


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