A friend has Maxtor drive, model 5T040H4, that is failing and he asked me to take a look. According to Maxtor this drive should be 40 gigs but in the bios it only shows up as 20 gigs. I tried it in several different computers that I know support large drives but no change. And the bios reports the drive fails so I cant access it at all. I tried maxtor diagnostics but all the error codes are listed on Maxtors site as being invalid error codes?!? what is going on with this drive?
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Maxtor drive trouble
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If the data on the drive is unimportant I would low level and do a full SMART test disnostics back to factory settings with Maxtors own Maxblast software available FOC on there website. This I believe is what Maxtor themselves will recommend. Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
Wheeler903
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maxtor have a utility called powermax it does a sequential test of your drive, the final one being a low level format, it's a very good piece of kit, try that before any other format utility. gl.
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Thanks for the posts but I have tried the powermax diag and none of the diagnostics will run. They all return error codes that are invalid. All the diags say this drive predates SMART. I would like not to have to format the drive if I dont have to.
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