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rowan · 04-10-2008, 01:18 PM

Not 100% sure but recent versions of Seatools may support Maxtor drives since they own them now. Go to www.seagate.com and download it, I use the CD-ISO version, boots to FreeDOS then runs Seatools. Select SHORT test to see if that succeeds (it may fail), then run a LONG test to see if it can recover/remap the sectors.

Data recovery will cost a shitload, you'll need to determine whether your data is worth that much.

04-10-2008, 01:18 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Not 100% sure but recent versions of Seatools may support Maxtor drives since they own them now. Go to www.seagate.com and download it, I use the CD-ISO version, boots to FreeDOS then runs Seatools. Select SHORT test to see if that succeeds (it may fail), then run a LONG test to see if it can recover/remap the sectors. Data recovery will cost a shitload, you'll need to determine whether your data is worth that much.