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Maxtor 40gig HDD not recognise
To Mijan and Mainegeek, hey guys thanks very much for your input.... a Lesson well learnt in this scenario...lol I should of left it alone when its first started...i did manage to saved the first lot of data, but then i continued to use it, to my shook horror. I'll just have to send it back...- hoani
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Maxtor 40gig HDD not recognise
mainegeek I understand that i may have removed data when i did step 2, but do you have any ideas as to why my system won't detect so i can format etc etc... I have exclude a few details as its gonna take me a while to type out each step i took from the first time it the drive gave me a...- hoani
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Maxtor 40gig HDD not recognise
Mijan, Thanks for speedy responce. This problem been naggy me for a whole week. >Its usually a failure of the drive heads on this type of >drive, spinning can be bad at times often it crashes the >media. With this comment, does this mean the disk plates are also damaged? or is it just the...- hoani
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Maxtor 40gig HDD not recognise
Hello, i purchase a maxtor DX540x-40 5400rpm. All work well till the other day when i started to get "DRIVE WRITE ERROR" The drive has work perfectly before i tried my diagnotics of aliminations. Here's a Brief description... step 1: Replace the 80wire ide cable step 2: Ran...- hoani
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