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08-21-2004, 01:34 PM
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Where can I find....
Hey guys,
Where can I find a diagnostics program for my Maxtor HDD? I've been to the Maxtor website and can't find anything. Does anyone have a link to a recommended diagnostics program for a Maxtor? TIA...
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08-21-2004, 01:41 PM
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08-21-2004, 01:41 PM
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08-21-2004, 02:11 PM
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Thanks WTBF and Panama Red
 I selected the PowerMax diagnostics program and read the instructions on what to do after the download, it mentioned that I have to get a clean floppy diskette and extract the diagnostics program onto it. There's a big fall back to this. I have no floppy drive installed!! Lol, I don't even have any clean floppy diskettes for that matter. Aaah, well. If I need to run HDD diagnostics at any time I'll just have to use my mum's computer to do the downloading and extracting to a floppy diskette since she has a floppy diskette drive on her computer. Once again guys, thanks for that link, visited and bookmarked
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08-21-2004, 02:21 PM
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Doesn't Maxtor offer a CD image for download ? You just need to download the iso file, using a program like Nero to burn it to a CD and then boot from it.
Because my IBM/Hitachi drive died a couple days ago I know that Hitachi offers the diagnostic tool as CD image (that's what I used, and it works very well ), and Maxtor as one of the best HDD manufactures should offer one, too.If not, I'd contact them to ask for a CD image. RJ
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08-21-2004, 02:58 PM
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RJ, I just revisited the site and found the MaxBlast ISO CD Image file. So yep, they do offer one
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08-21-2004, 03:28 PM
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Western Digital (and maybe Maxtor) offers an online test on ANY brand of ide hard drive. I've used it for several different brands and it works well.
http://support.wdc.com/dlg/onlinedlg.asp |
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