I'm not sure what drivers I'm searching for. As I mentioned before, the machine it works on never prompted for a driver install when the Maxtor 3100 drive was first plugged-in. It just worked. On the other XP Pro system, however, when I plug the Maxtor 3100 drive in to the USB 2.0 port, Windows...

Hello, All! I have two Maxtor 5T040H4 harddisks in my PC. The primary (boot) one has two partitions, C: (10 Mb) and D: (30 Mb). The secondary has one partition, E: (40Mb) The PC and the disks are appr. 3 years old. Since 8 months, when booting, sometimes there's a sound, like a soft beep from the...

Hey Ppl, I have jus one drive and it wasnt partioned, it has the OS and all the datas. All of a sudden my system shut down and after that BIOS cant detect my HDD. When i did some research it says that the firmware is gone. Can i change the PCB board with the identical one so that i can retrive my...

I've had a Maxtor hard disk for several years now, and it's working perfectly. It's not loud, it's fast, and I'm happy so far. Anyone else?? =Pete

Does anyone know how many platters the DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA drive has? Maxtor does not list it in their data sheet, unlike the datasheets for earlier generation drives.

I have recently experienced some problems with my hard disk. It's a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 250Mb ATA 16Mb drive. It was running perfectly until a few weeks ago when I could not remove Microsoft .Net framework v2 beta without a BSOD. I tried to download and install the official .Net v2 release but...

anyone got one of these hidden away, where the drive hardware is US but you believe the control card to be OK Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 7200 Model: 5T03H3 (this is the 30 gig number) HDA: 33A PCBA: 04A (very important that this is same) Unique: 11A the Model is somewhat irrelevant so long as the...

A have a Maxtor 20GB 2B020H1 which is doing the spin-up then spin-down thing. The controller says ATHENA ATA2-PLUS, FBII 301430100. I found this site http://www.hddtech.co.uk/MaxtorFailureSymptoms.htm and my symptoms match precisely. So I bought a working 2B020H1 used. I swapped the contoller but...

Hello, I'm having some issues with transferring a slave hard drive from an old xp computer to a new one. The drive in question is Maxtor's 6Y200P0, the drive only has data files (pictures, music, applications, etc). It's never been used as a "C" drive with windows installed on it. I checked...

Hi all my maxtor drive has had a major head crash and I need a matching drive for parts if you happen to have one knocking around. Actually preferably not knocking around LOL !! It's a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 160 GB 2mb Cache Model no:6Y160L0****** Additional criteria: it needs to be made in...

I have a 120 gig external maxtor drive (USB connector) that has failed. I get a generic I/O error when I try accessing data on the drive. The OS (XP) can see the drive but thats about it. Chdks gives me a generic I/O error. Also, the OS seems to be busy trying to access the disk which makes...

I just bought a Maxtor One Touch II 200 GB external hard drive for back-up. I installed the software like it said to do in the manual and then connected the drive via firewire. Windows immediately recognized it. The Maxtor software I had installed then gave me a prompt that said basically...

Hi Hardware people, My Maxtor external drive (one touch 200 gb firewire) is having a problem. My PC (XP) does not recognize the disk as an external one. It says it has an internal M: drive, but clicking the icon only brings forth the question whether I want to format the drive (NO, of...

First post here... My brother-in-law gave me a spare 40GB Maxtor Fireball 3. I was to install it on my daughters computer. Unfortunately while he was formatting it he accidentally switched the computer off at the mains. The drive is no longer detected by the BIOS. I have downloaded software from...

Hi, Real long shot but i am after a 30gb maxtor hard drive with a working controler, the one on mine has broken (drive is still intact, i THINK). It must be a 30gb Maxtor fireball 3 with part number (next to top bar code) of nFnnnlnnn02nn where n = any number and l = any letter. but the F and...

Hi, recently ive re built my PC with a nForce4 M/B and now all of a sudden one of my hard drives once a week start to make a clicking noise. This can happen when loading up Windows XP or randomly when using my machine. The noise is quite loud, lasts 3-6 seconds and sounds similar like a drive not...

From: Subject: Maxtor Hard Drive Clicking Noise HELP Date: 10 June 2006 09:29 Hi, recently ive re built my PC with a nForce4 M/B and now all of a sudden one of my hard drives once a week start to make a clicking noise. This can happen when loading up Windows XP or randomly...

I have a 40 GB DiamondMax Plus hard drive bought about 1 1/2 years ago. I just installed it a month ago and it ran fine until yesterday. Then when starting up the computer things got screwy and there were signs of a hard drive problem. I ran Spinrite 5 and one of it's first screens told me that...

Has anyone ever had problems using the Maxblast software that comes with the Maxtor hard drive? I bought a 30 GB. Maxtor hard drive for a new computer. It came with a cd that you can use to boot the computer if you're installing the hard drive in a new system. Anyway, I put the cd in and...

Just a quick note to describe my (admittedly limited) experience with my Maxtor hard drives and Windows. It seems that Windows, and DOS for that matter, don't play nice with my 80Gig Maxtor hard drives. Under normal circumstances, they are perfectly happy together. But as soon as Windows wants to...