Hard drive test program for Maxtor HD
15 October 2006, 11:24 AM
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Hard drive test program for Maxtor HD
Managed to drop my Lacie 500Gb back up 
One HD is definately toast from the sound of it.
The other shows a capacity of 467 GB even though its 250 Gb (something to do with the RAID array?) but cannot be opened up.
The HDs are Maxtors and I remember that Maxtor did a test program called Powermax some years ago.
The Maxtor website doesn't seem to work anymore - do they still exist or are under another name now?
Anyone konw where I can get it now, or is there another freeware program that can test Maxtors?
I've tried reformatting but it gets to only 27% after 5 hours and seesm to freeze.
I've switched SMART on the BIOS and it reports a sector fault if that helps.
Nick
One HD is definately toast from the sound of it.
The other shows a capacity of 467 GB even though its 250 Gb (something to do with the RAID array?) but cannot be opened up.
The HDs are Maxtors and I remember that Maxtor did a test program called Powermax some years ago.
The Maxtor website doesn't seem to work anymore - do they still exist or are under another name now?
Anyone konw where I can get it now, or is there another freeware program that can test Maxtors?
I've tried reformatting but it gets to only 27% after 5 hours and seesm to freeze.
I've switched SMART on the BIOS and it reports a sector fault if that helps.
Nick
15 October 2006, 01:53 PM
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Dont know what model disk youre using but maxtors site is working for me!
Have a browse for diag tools on there.
Dont know what model disk youre using but maxtors site is working for me!
Have a browse for diag tools on there.
15 October 2006, 03:59 PM
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18 October 2006, 09:43 AM
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One HD is still going but I'm going to downsize, so am sellingt hwe LaCie enclosure if anyone is interested:
https://www.scoobynet.com/private-sa...enclosure.html
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