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Maxtor HD failure
Than you guys so far for your tips. This is what the data recovery people sent me in their mail: "As discussed on the phone, we were unable to recover data from your disk. The fault appears to be related to corrupted factory-installed data on the first few sectors of the disk Only the...- stephen2d
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Maxtor HD failure
Hi everyone, I have recently purchased a Maxtor 30gb HD IDE 3.5" with a suitable case (used as an external HD) and a month after installing it, copied all the data on it, etc. I had a click of death! I thought of it as a reliable HD and was going to do a back-up once I have gathered all the...- stephen2d
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
