20 Most Recent Maxtor Hard Drive - Page 9 Questions & Answers

simply repair your hard drive or replace eith new one

the beeps are post during post the very first work is done by the ram,all the memory in the ram is first transferred to the hard disk,and remains active untill turned off. make sure that your RAM is securely seated test or replacing all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA the ones that attach from your ((motherboard to hard drive)) make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty or just replace them they are probably old and faulty ? hope this helps

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive Test the leads that attach to your ((hard drive from the motherboard)) or replace all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA and the ones that attach from your ((motherboard to hard drive)) make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they are probably old and faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error hope this helps

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One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect/ boot up a computer hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they are probably old and faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error 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 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 hope this helps

If the drive is used as an external drive ie. in a usb caddy, then check the caddy is fitted correctly and that the cable is not damaged. if the drive is internal, try using a different power connection and a different ide/sata socket on the motherboard also check if the drive is set to master, slave or csl (the jumper on the back of the drive next to the connection socket; there will be info on the drive (the white label on top) telling you where the jumper should go. If the drive is ide, and the drive is not the main drive but on the same cable as the main drive, the jumper should be set to "slave" or "sl" If the drive is sata, set the jumper to "master" or "ma". If all else fails, set the jumper to "cable select" or "csl"
hope this helps.

Hello,

If one Jumper firt in master (M) and another will be slave(SL) or cable select(CS).
Many drives feature an option called Cable Select (CS). With the correct type of IDE ribbon cable, these drives can be auto configured as master or slave.And it is market on every hard disk.

Follow the bellow link.http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/images/support/en/us/mxo_ata_jumpers_rev.jpg

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=ata_jumper_settings&vgnextoid=cbc974850ce0e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

http://www.seagate.com/images/support/en/us/u5_family_1.gif

http://www.ehow.com/how_4966046_set-maxtor-hard-drive-slave.html

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html

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Is the hard drive full check it by going to my computer see the hard drive go to properties check that and then see how much space is available. I highly recommend a bigger hard drive especially if you download things quite a bit or move files to another source external USB flash drives work well or external drive will do the job. Check the space if it is fine and you have enough room then something in one of those files is stopping the drive from working. Reformat get all you can off of it then install the software Operating software again starting over fresh. I usually do my drives about 1 or twice a month reinstall software back to its original so that I do not get packed with junk I do not have to deal with or see. Also it is advisable to clean and defrag disks frequently some will tell you do not have to do this I can tell you since I have been doing for over 20 years now I just do not have problems with my computers. John

I met this kind of problem before, the MOST effective way is to if you can rely on some so-called data recovery software for help.

First of ALL - Connect your hard drive to your personal computer. And install this software Wondershare Data Recovery on the computer in order to perform data recovery. Get the program from its site.
data recovery (for Windows OS)
Mac data recovery (for Mac OS X)

Good luck. I hope that my reply has shed some light on the problem!

You can change the jumper settings near to the data cable port to change the master slave settings on most of the HDDs. Most probably you can see the labels near tot he jumpers itself to change the master slave settings. You can see the below picture for reference.. please set that according to the label near to the jumper pins..

The drive will need to be reformatted to the HFS file spec for Mac. You will lose any data on the drive when you do that.

However, you shouldn't need to do anything other than plug the drive into your iMac, then once the icon appears on your desktop (may take a minute), double-click on it to start the Mac install process.

If the Mac install process fails for some reason, it may be because the drive was previously installed on a Windows machine, and you may have to simply treat it as a "raw" new drive, and reformat it using the Mac operating system utilities.

Hope that's helpful.

you should change the data cable

Right next to power plug are your jumpers referance point is 1 solo pin all the rest are in pairs,on the side should have letters for jumper ma=master sl=slave cs=cable select place your jumper on sl you should be good to go

You are sure both power and data cables are connected. Or did this problem just happen from one day to the next? If so then your HD is likely dead.

You can check that the bios still sees it. If not then your cables are not connected. If your bios sees it and OS doesn't then you have a crashed HD.

cable select

This should help. Enjoy.

Its the ata installation drive guide.