I've been reading the newsgroups via Google for a few hours, and Maxtor seems to get a bad name for reliability. One person after the next made comments like "bought a Maxtor brand-new and within two months it died". Are they *that* bad? I only ask because Western Digital, who seem to get a good...

hi , i've a big problem with my new hd. it's a maxtor diamondmax9 sata 180gb ...it's 4-5 month fo work ... yesterday while i working with my pc a gigabyte with XP while i copy files from a partition to another partition (simple operation) system reboot !!!!!!!! :o at the reboot an horrible message...

Was wondering if anyone owns either the 200GB or 300GB versions of the Maxtor shared storage drive. I know you can attach a printer to one of the USB ports, but can this thing act as a print server for, say a wireless network, when the main PC is shutdown? Maxtor doesn't give much detail in its...

I'm looking for detailed technical information on a Maxtor STM3250820A drive - at least that is how it is described at Ebuyer.com. I cannot find any direct reference at maxtor.com, and only a sketchy, 2-sheet, pdf on the Diamondmax 21 family...

Greetings, My brother in low has killed his harddisc. And yes, with pictures on it and no backup. The electronics is mailfunktion. Has anyone a harddisk Maxtor type 2A010H1 so i can get the pictures of his wedding en kid? of course he will pay for the harddisk or replace it with a new one. Thanks...

I have an 80 gb ATA/133 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 with 8 mb cache. I have a PCI adaptor but the A03 bios in my dell 8200 does not seem to be able to recognise the drive attatched to the pci adaptor as a boot drive. Any ideas on how to get the dell 8200 to use the pci adapted 133 hd as the C: boot...

Just looking at the properties for the nVidia IDE controller and noticed that there is a speed test available for hard drives. I've got two 120gig PATA drives installed so I ran the test to see how they performed. Seagate ST3120026A: Theoretical Limit: 100 mB/sec Burst Speed: 84.7 mB/sec ...

Hi guys. I recently have major problems with my 80GB 6Y080L0 Maxtor HDD. Previously they were "drive not ready" and paging/controller errors. Now: 1) When I try to copy files to it, they either disappear or take forever to copy. Once the PC beeped, then slowed down and froze about 2 seconds...

Hey all, Does anyone have a BIOS back up for the Maxtor branded card?? I mistakenly flashed my Maxtor card with the Promise bios and forgot to back up the Maxtor version. I tried to find one on Maxtor's site but they just list the driver. Promise lists previous drivers and bios's...why doesn't...

I purchased this 200GB Maxtor harddrive in Nov. 2003. It ran fine, and I had no problem with it using the ATA133 PCI card that came with it. But just this past weekend, when I turn on my computer's power, the hard drive started beeping! Yeah.. how weird is that?! XP won't recognize it, and the ...

Hello, I have an Intel D865GVHZ Mother Board, 572 KB RAM, Intel Celeron CPU 3.06GHz that I purchased recently. My former motherboard was an 800 MHZ AMD CPU on a VIA EP-7KXA+ Mother Board. I have a Trios (Romtec) switch connected to 3 Western Digital hard drives. I have Linux on a 40 GB, XP Pro on...

My ASUS MB has SATA connectors but every time I boot from the Windows CD, I must install drivers from a floppy. Is there a BIOS that can be used with an A7N8X-Deluxe MB that avoids the problem?

Hello, I recently stepped into this problem with my custom built system. First my config. mobo: WinFast K7NCR18D-Pro Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ Memory: 3 Kingston 256MB PC2100 266MHz 32x64 DDR 184Pin Videocard: maddog predator MX 440 8X GeForce4 HD: 4 maxtor 160 8MB Power: Kingwing 350W OS:...

Can someone recommend a good motherboard for a Athlon 64 3400+ S754 CPU please.

My box just died. I'm looking for reccomendations for a new one. I'm looking to get away with as cheap as possible, re-using as much as possible. I was looking into new MB/CPU/RAM anyway because my P4 2.4Ghz w/1G RAM is not capable of doing what I want to do. I do music. Namely, Cubase with...

Hello ! I'm currently working on a Compaq PC based on an Asus P4G533-LA (Echo) mobo. In the BIOS hardware monitoring section, I can see that the current CPU Temp is around 42 Celcius/108 Fahrenheit. I installed Motherboard Monitor 5 to see how this temp may vary under different contidions as...

Im buying: INTEL Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz, 2x1 Mb c., LGA 775, BUS 533 MHz, Prescott, EM64T, Dual Core, BOX but im not sure if all MBOs support dual core? Please give advice or suggestion? I was thinking beetwen these two: 1.

I may have a problem. I have two hard drives: C drive - boot drive - XP SP3. D drive - data drive - NTFS - contains only a backup image of C drive. Partition Manager shows the second drive (D) is 'bad'. However I can look at drive D and its backup image using Windows Explorer, and all seems...

Recently installed McAfee total protection antivirus together with Virtual Technician ( MVT ), on Pentium IV running Windows XP. The antivirus appears to be functioning OK, but the MVT just repetedly gives the error: "MVT cannot continue until you've rebooted your PC to finish your McAfee Virtual...

P-IV running Windows XP with McAfee recently installed. Full system scans take more than 5 hours. Informed comments and any help greatly appreciated & thanks ! ...