Just had 4 Maxtor SATA drives go down
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Just had 4 Maxtor SATA drives go down
Yes you read it right. my 4 x 300GB mator SATA drives have just gone down. I reinstalled XP on my main rig, pressed F6 to install the silicon raid driver and XP failed to recognise any of the drives.
Hmmmmmm........strange i though but i continued with the install as i have a 320GB IDE drive in the rig as well. Went to the maxtor site and downloaded the latest diagnostic software. Checked connections, power, SATA cables etc. The software would not read any of the drives, it would not event low level format the drives either.
2 of the drives are still in warranty thankfully, the other 2 are out of warranty by 2 months
All the information (read movies and music). Has anyone else ever had problems of maxtor diamondmax SATA drives go down?
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Hmmmmmm........strange i though but i continued with the install as i have a 320GB IDE drive in the rig as well. Went to the maxtor site and downloaded the latest diagnostic software. Checked connections, power, SATA cables etc. The software would not read any of the drives, it would not event low level format the drives either.
2 of the drives are still in warranty thankfully, the other 2 are out of warranty by 2 months
All the information (read movies and music). Has anyone else ever had problems of maxtor diamondmax SATA drives go down?
Well pissed off Sinky
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I had a SATA2 maxtor harddrive go down after about 4 months (it refused to boot) bought a new hardrive (IDE) not a problem since.
Did everything you mentioned (checking power leads etc) and it was completely dead as with you i was not happy got a replacement but not really happy about installing it.
Did everything you mentioned (checking power leads etc) and it was completely dead as with you i was not happy got a replacement but not really happy about installing it.
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I dont touch maxtor drives these days as I find they are unreliable. Dont even think it is down to heat in cases either as I build pcs for friends/family etc (no profit) and in one I built that went down as well (that was quite a basic system with ample case cooling)
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
Yes you read it right. my 4 x 300GB mator SATA drives have just gone down. I reinstalled XP on my main rig, pressed F6 to install the silicon raid driver and XP failed to recognise any of the drives.
Hmmmmmm........strange i though but i continued with the install as i have a 320GB IDE drive in the rig as well. Went to the maxtor site and downloaded the latest diagnostic software. Checked connections, power, SATA cables etc. The software would not read any of the drives, it would not event low level format the drives either.
2 of the drives are still in warranty thankfully, the other 2 are out of warranty by 2 months
All the information (read movies and music). Has anyone else ever had problems of maxtor diamondmax SATA drives go down?
Well pissed off Sinky
Hmmmmmm........strange i though but i continued with the install as i have a 320GB IDE drive in the rig as well. Went to the maxtor site and downloaded the latest diagnostic software. Checked connections, power, SATA cables etc. The software would not read any of the drives, it would not event low level format the drives either.
2 of the drives are still in warranty thankfully, the other 2 are out of warranty by 2 months
All the information (read movies and music). Has anyone else ever had problems of maxtor diamondmax SATA drives go down?
Well pissed off Sinky
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