had this discussion with my bro inlaw and he called maxtor and they assured him the first thing they do is clean the drives. They get too many of these things in to poke around, unless I imagine they got one from Bill, Huge or Bush >:-} Fred I have been shying away from maxtors lately. wd and Seagate for me, love Hitachi but with no advance RMA, that sucks.
At 10:51 AM 2/21/2006, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: >About a year ago a 4 month old WD 2000JB went bad on me so while I was waiting >for a replacement drive I bought one of the then new Maxtor 250 gig drives >with 16 megs of cache. I thought that was very cool to have double the cache! >Anyway, I got my WD back and it's been running fine ever since but now the >Maxtor has gone bad. Just out of the blue my system got real sluggish and when >I rebooted it wouldn't load XP. I was still able to use GRUB to get into Linux >but Windows was a no-go. > >I RMA'ed it today and was wondering if anybody knows of a way to save/erase >the information on the drive before it goes back? The drive is completely >inaccessible (AFAIK) and when I installed it into another box it stopped the >POST and I was even unable to get into the BIOS. Remove the drive and >everything returns to normal. Has anybody ever had this problem with some >success accessing the drive? TIA -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- The cautious seldom err.
