20 Most Recent Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300R0 (6L300R020PK) 300 GB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

Check your jumper settings on the drive it sounds like youve got the jumper over the 32gig limit pins.....cheers from Scott and plz vote

you could run the check disk utility click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which will scan for and attempt to repair any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive then defragment your hard drive or click start control panel administrive tools,computer management ,disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now,start should schedule this task when restart do not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer hope this helps dont forget to vote

Try using seatools to repair your drive it is available here http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=3.4.0.1.1&vgnextoid=3b17fbbad0f89210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD

Sounds like a bad solder joint or break on the circuit board. If the data on it is important, you may need to use a data retrieval service.

Go into Disk Management...Look for your drive and either it has not been formatted and assigned or just not assigned you can right click on the disk and assign to a drive letter.

If you don't know the password, you're stuck.
A brand-new 160GB hard-drive can be purchased for under $50.
So, buy a new hard-drive.

It may be a power supply issue but before you take it back to exchange see if any of the hints below are of use.

One or more of the hints below will probably sort out most USB problems with most USB portable / external hard drives and OTHER devices (though not always)

A few things to check but assumes USB and Windows for other interfaces / operating systems (mac/ Linux) similar steps may be adapted to suit.

1. Ensure it is connected directly to the computer to a USB 2.0 port not a USB 1.0 port as this can have effects on performance and reliability

2. Use only the cables that came with it NOT one that fits that may have been lying around or is longer. Not all USB cables are equal even though they should be)

3. Do not connect through an external USB HUB unless that hub is USB 2.0 AND has its own power supply.

4. Use ONLY the power supply that came with it if it has an external power supply Don’t use any other unless you know it has both the same voltage and current rating e.g. 12V 500mA anything rated below that would not work properly.

5. Always use the same port for connecting your devices. Some devices do not like being switched about. If switched they may want to install software / drivers again. This can be especially true if you move a HUB to another port
6. For FLASH DRIVES you should ensure that the device is set for "quick removal" using the drive control panel properties or use the USB "Safely Remove Hardware" option. If you dont do this there is a very strong chance that any files you transfer may not be there when you plug into another computer.

If you checked and fixed anything there and still have issues then check your hardware from CONTROL PANEL / SYSTEM / HARDWARE.
Any exclamation marks by hardware need fixing before you investigate any further

USB flash drives can fail for no apparent reason.
Sandisk Cruzers are especially bad for this.

USB hard drives should be treated with extreme care.
This is a real hard drive ! and knocks and bumps can quite literally kill them.

It is possible to remove drives from the enclosures in most cases and connect directly inside a PC to fully check it.
You should also do this to cheack the drives connections are not bad inside the enclosure

Note that if you hear a drive clicking or pinging this could be the worst thing you would hear.
Known as "The Click Of Death"

If none of the above steps help look at updating the drivers from the manufacturers web site in the support section.

Yes, If your partition isn't being recognized than windows has no way of reading the information. thats why windows create partitions to determine the amount of space and data being used. it anything try to access it in my computer and see if you can. if you can its possible to get you info, i recommend ananother external to transfer the data to or if its not that much info put it on a flash drive

You may have damaged the heads in the drive

You can try it on another computer but I expect you will need data recovery help. I can suggest http://FreeDataRecovery.us

Take a look at this pdf:eshop.macsales.com/Tech/manuals/idehdsettings/Maxtor72.pdfSo If this is layout " : : : . : " then...slave ----------- " : : : . : " master -------- " [:]: : . : "cable select -- " :[:]: . : "

Do you have the jumpers set correctly for your setup? Check it against the diagrams on this pdf:http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/manuals/idehdsettings/Maxtor72.pdf

are you sure this is the error code ca699178 ?click start control panel administrative tools computer management then select event viewer this may vary depending on what operating system you have

extend the events there you will see errors in red you will no what exactly what the error was and at what time it occured

you might be able work your way through the problem

hope this helps you

your las hope is to replace the Pcb Controller with a working and exact same one ,

Link 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ec_BG1BrTXhPWyMgJtbfMAAmrV1lrTY7/view?usp=share_link Link 2https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wni-u68YQaeCs7eMNhgIEeUgg1fRUO0Q/view?usp=share_link