Data Recovery from Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 hard disk
drives
All drives in the DiamondMax Plus 8
series are listed below:
6E020L0
(20Gb)
6E030L0 (30Gb)
6E040L0 (40Gb)
Identification: A slimline IDE hard
drive with a shiny metallic top and a white Maxtor label in the centre.
The "DiamondMax Plus 8" label can be found a third of the
way down on the left hand side, whilst the model number will be further
down to the left of the first bar code. All DiamondMax Plus
8 models start with the digits "6E0"
Symptoms:
1. When the computer is powered on the BIOS will identify the drive
as MAXTOR N40P or
2. When the computer is powered on the BIOS will fail to identify
the drive
3. When the computer is powered on it will fail to start and a knocking
noise (produced by the hard disk) will be heard
Cause: DiamondMax Plus 8 drives that
are recognised as "MAXTOR N40P" in the BIOS have often sustained
damage to their firmware zone.
Recovery possibilities: Data Clinic are often
able to perform a full data recovery on all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus
8 series hard drives with firmware zone corruption
What if I have one of these drives but the symptoms
are different?: This is quite possible, they are still prone to
all the other problems hard disks suffer from ie. mechanical failure,
logical failure, bad sectors etc.
What should I do?: Call the Data Clinic and talk
your problem through with us on 0871 977 2525, or fill
out our auto-form and we'll call you back
>>
Read our case study regarding recovering
data from a Maxtor DiamondMax 8 hard disk drive with a firmware corruption
(recognised as Maxtor N40P)
>> Read our section
on data
recovery from Maxtor hard disk drives
>> Read our specific page on Maxtor
G-List firmware corruption
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recovery page
Please note that all modern hard
disk drives are manufactured to very high standards, fail infrequently
and have very similar rates of reliability.
