Data Recovery from slimline Maxtor hard disk drives
Maxtor
DX541 family: Models 2B020H1 (20GB), 2B015H1
(15GB), 2B010H1 (10GB)
Maxtor Fireball 3 family: Models 2F020J0/L0
(20GB), 2F030J0/L0 (30GB), 2F030J0/L0
(40GB)
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 family:
Models 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 specific model can be identified by looking slightly below and
to the left of the Maxtor logo at the top. All the Maxtor
2B, 2F, 6E and 4D series hard disk drives detailed above may fail
with problems specific to their firmware zone.
Symptoms: Firmware zone problems on these drives are apparent
in one of the following ways:
1. When the computer is powered on the BIOS will incorrectly identify
the drive by the family name used during production of the drive:
MAXTOR ATHENA (for the 2B series),
MAXTOR ARES C64K (for the 2F series)
MAXTOR N40P (for the 6E series)
2. When the computer is powered on the BIOS will fail to identify
the drive
3. The drive appears to spin up, then soon after spins down with
a distinctive (although quiet) noise as the heads fail to park.
4. The drive appears to spin up, a regular metallic sounding ticking
is heard from the drive.
PLEASE NOTE: It is important that a drive displaying
the above symptoms is left powered down, this is especially true in
the case of symptom 4, the data is at risk of becoming irretrievable
if the disk is repeatedly powered up and down.
Recovery possibilities: Data Clinic are often
able to perform a full data recovery on all Maxtor slimline hard drives
with specific 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 0870 140 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
> Back
to the MAIN data
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.
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