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Maxtor Harddrive?
i should have run a harddrive diagnostic *first* but i didn't.
anyway, i was working on an XP machine that would not boot up to the gui. even attempting to boot to safe mode, the system hung about halfway through . from the recovery console i did a chkdsk /r and got the system working ok. a few days later the person brought the machine back because of the same problem...only this time chkdsk /r did not fix the problem because all the data was backed up i decided to do a (slow) format and reinstall XP... however the installation crashed partway through. at that point i put in a different harddrive and all is well. the machine has been running flawlessly for several days. since the drive is a Maxtor...i ran the (maxtor)diagnostic utility in order to get an RMA number. when the diagnostic ran it said ( i forgot the *exact* words) that the drive had a minor error...did i want to correct it? so i opted for "yes" i then got the message that the drive was now repaired... and upon running the diagnostic again it came out ok. from experience i know that just because a drive passes the diagnostic it is not necessarily reliable... of course with no errors showing there is prob. not much of a chance of claiming warranty. i'll probably just use the drive for a few months ( doing nothing important)...just to see if it will actually work or not my question is...does anyone know what Maxtor's diagnostic "fixed" i know the diagnostics should be independent of the file system |
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:44:46 -0600, philo wrote:
my question is...does anyone know what Maxtor's diagnostic "fixed" i know the diagnostics should be independent of the file system Didnt it give you an error code? Or was it too minor to give you one? I usually get one and then look it up on the net. They seem to be cryptic - some description is listed for some of them but others --- sometimes you see someone posting about it. |
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My brothers machine had the same problem, with a maxtor drive again- same
thing, repaired the drive with the diag utility and it worked fine for about two weeks and right now its sitting around non-functional, with the same problem, im guessing its a maxtor way of showing you a drive is on its way out just for reference his drive is an IDE Maxtor 40GB, not sure of the model number but theres not many different models which fit this description FingAZ. "philo" wrote in message ... i should have run a harddrive diagnostic *first* but i didn't. anyway, i was working on an XP machine that would not boot up to the gui. even attempting to boot to safe mode, the system hung about halfway through . from the recovery console i did a chkdsk /r and got the system working ok. a few days later the person brought the machine back because of the same problem...only this time chkdsk /r did not fix the problem because all the data was backed up i decided to do a (slow) format and reinstall XP... however the installation crashed partway through. at that point i put in a different harddrive and all is well. the machine has been running flawlessly for several days. since the drive is a Maxtor...i ran the (maxtor)diagnostic utility in order to get an RMA number. when the diagnostic ran it said ( i forgot the *exact* words) that the drive had a minor error...did i want to correct it? so i opted for "yes" i then got the message that the drive was now repaired... and upon running the diagnostic again it came out ok. from experience i know that just because a drive passes the diagnostic it is not necessarily reliable... of course with no errors showing there is prob. not much of a chance of claiming warranty. i'll probably just use the drive for a few months ( doing nothing important)...just to see if it will actually work or not my question is...does anyone know what Maxtor's diagnostic "fixed" i know the diagnostics should be independent of the file system |
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FingAZ wrote:
My brothers machine had the same problem, with a maxtor drive again- same thing, repaired the drive with the diag utility and it worked fine for about two weeks and right now its sitting around non-functional, with the same problem, im guessing its a maxtor way of showing you a drive is on its way out just for reference his drive is an IDE Maxtor 40GB, not sure of the model number but theres not many different models which fit this description FingAZ. thanks for the info this drive is also an ide 40gig... it's prob out of warranty anyway...so i guess i'll just use it for experimenting |
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Yeah i recommend it- im guessing these hard drives were probably built at a
lower grade, hence the release of the diamond max 9 and 10, im not sure if they are or not but it would make sense if these drives were diamond max 8? FingAZ. "philo" wrote in message ... FingAZ wrote: My brothers machine had the same problem, with a maxtor drive again- same thing, repaired the drive with the diag utility and it worked fine for about two weeks and right now its sitting around non-functional, with the same problem, im guessing its a maxtor way of showing you a drive is on its way out just for reference his drive is an IDE Maxtor 40GB, not sure of the model number but theres not many different models which fit this description FingAZ. thanks for the info this drive is also an ide 40gig... it's prob out of warranty anyway...so i guess i'll just use it for experimenting |
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:55:38 GMT, "FingAZ"
wrote: My brothers machine had the same problem, with a maxtor drive again- same thing, repaired the drive with the diag utility and it worked fine for about two weeks and right now its sitting around non-functional, with the same problem, im guessing its a maxtor way of showing you a drive is on its way out just for reference his drive is an IDE Maxtor 40GB, not sure of the model number but theres not many different models which fit this description There are several different Maxtor 40GB models, perhaps more than any other recent drive. For example there's the Diamondmax 60, 540x, 740x, Plus 8, and maybe Plus 9 too. I've had all but a Plus 9 in 40GB size and found ony the Diamondmax 60 to be particularly problematic. Perhaps Maxtor felt the same way as they replaced it with their newly acquired Quantum model (D740x) before reverting back to Maxtor designs for the Plus 8. |
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philo wrote: i ran the (maxtor)diagnostic utility in order to get an RMA number. when the diagnostic ran it said ( i forgot the *exact* words) that the drive had a minor error... did i want to correct it? so i opted for "yes" i then got the message that the drive was now repaired... and upon running the diagnostic again it came out ok. does anyone know what Maxtor's diagnostic "fixed" It was probably able to read any bad sectors and rebuild their data using the error correction bits. Then it rewrote the data to either the same sectors or to some spares, taking the original sectors out of use permanently if the latter were used. The Maxtor diagnostic should be run a few more times over the next week or 2 because the drive will probably soon fail completely if more defects are found, but otherwise it should be fine for quite some time. |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:55:38 GMT, "FingAZ" wrote: My brothers machine had the same problem, with a maxtor drive again- same thing, repaired the drive with the diag utility and it worked fine for about two weeks and right now its sitting around non-functional, with the same problem, im guessing its a maxtor way of showing you a drive is on its way out just for reference his drive is an IDE Maxtor 40GB, not sure of the model number but theres not many different models which fit this description There are several different Maxtor 40GB models, perhaps more than any other recent drive. For example there's the Diamondmax 60, 540x, 740x, Plus 8, and maybe Plus 9 too. I've had all but a Plus 9 in 40GB size and found ony the Diamondmax 60 to be particularly problematic. Perhaps Maxtor felt the same way as they replaced it with their newly acquired Quantum model (D740x) before reverting back to Maxtor designs for the Plus 8. i just had a look at the drive it's D740x |
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wrote in message oups.com... philo wrote: i ran the (maxtor)diagnostic utility in order to get an RMA number. when the diagnostic ran it said ( i forgot the *exact* words) that the drive had a minor error... did i want to correct it? so i opted for "yes" i then got the message that the drive was now repaired... and upon running the diagnostic again it came out ok. does anyone know what Maxtor's diagnostic "fixed" It was probably able to read any bad sectors and rebuild their data using the error correction bits. Then it rewrote the data to either the same sectors or to some spares, taking the original sectors out of use permanently if the latter were used. The Maxtor diagnostic should be run a few more times over the next week or 2 because the drive will probably soon fail completely if more defects are found, but otherwise it should be fine for quite some time. yes that makes sense. i think i'll try lo-level formatting the drive and see what happens although it does not always work... i;ve had a few drives that were lo-level formatted and stayed working |
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