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I apologize if this has been addressed but I read an e-mail
that I feel I need to address.
If you hard drive is a maxtor under 20 gigs and it clanks like
the heads are hitting the side of the drive inside you are in luck. 99.9%
of the time this is an electronics failure and not a physical head assembly
prob. I have fixed this at least 50 times by simply replacing the
electronics portion of the HD with an identical one from a good drive. In
fact my exact process would be to call Maxtor and arrange an advance ship RMA
and once I got the good drive I would swap boards and send back the bad
electronics along with the new hda they sent. Normally I would think this
sorta un-ethical but in all honesty I was told to do this by a maxtor tech
rep.
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