Maxtor Hard Drive Crashes. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq () Having had crashes in the past, I was happy to see a site go up taking a survey of Maxtor Hard drive failures. They will contact you with the final results if you provide contact...

anyone know of a good link that would tell me all I need to know about preparing a hard drive for a new system? Both of the hard drives that I mentioned are coming out of my old system and they have windows 2k Pro on them. I need to make sure that they are...

Hi, My Maxtor hard drive broke in my Sony VAIO desktop. I pulled a hard drive (ONLY 1.5 GB) from my old PC, mounted to VAIO, and installed Windows XP Professional while I'm waiting for new hard drive to arrive. When my new hard drive arrived, I replaced...

Maxtor. hey i got a maxtor hard drive and ive had it for 3 years now its starting to play up every time a plug my harddrive into my computer it frezzes,it took 26mins just to open. once i double clicked it it freezes but when i quickly pull the cable out all...

wasn't so stupid and also checked what device manager was telling me about the second hard drive. Device manage can see both hard drives. As they are identical 120GB hard drives they are each named Maxtor 6Y120LO. System restore can only see the C drive...

have 3 WD drives, 2 1TB and a 750GB. I would go with seagate 7200. I use 3 of them and they are reliable and fast. I like them alot. I remember when Maxtor hard drives where the best, what ever happened to their good reputation? samsmsung.. deskstar rules my...

program. There is a thorough option to scan the hard drive, although it is not identified as such. Open My Computer, and right-click the hard drive icon. Go to Properties\Tools|Error Checking. Click the Check Now button, and select both options. "Scan...

Clone/copy hard drive. I have a rather old Dell dimension 8200 with a Maxtor 6L080L4 hard disk. I installed another identical Maxtor hard drive and copied many files onto it. I believe both have only one partition. Question: do I need to delete the files I...

patches get in behind the original fire wall and anti virus software and those programs do not correctly function any more and deny access to the hard drive or anyone trying to use the computer main drive such as opening up Email accounts that have user authorization...

Some say it's a hard drive problem. My 3 SATA hard drives are new. Windows and the computer found and recognized them all fine and I've not had any problems with them but to eliminate some of the potentail I'm only using 1 drive (c drive) for now until I solve...