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This is a common problem, your drive is in what is known as safe mode or kernel mode, what has happened is some modules of the firmware have failed to load and so it is now only detecting the logic board. I'm afraid there won't be much you can do without the special software to read the firmware aspect of the drive, you need to load what is known as a loader which contains the code to boot the heard drive up so we can write to the firmware (the firmware is stored on the platters) so really your only option is to send it off to a data recovery company who have all the gear like Digital Recovery
There is a jumper located near the power plug and on the label there should be a configuration table. Primary, slave or cable select. Double check to see the data ribon cable type the newer ones 7600 RPM I believe has a dense wire ribon texture for faster data transfer, I did not believe it when I first saw it eather.. I believe that may have to use the older standard ribon data cable. And check the config of that jumper
In general, hard drives are guaranteed by the manufacturer for one year. 3 years on premium drives. I don't consider older Maxtor drives premium! (probably personal bias). I would think any 80GB IDE drive would work
Assuming this was your only hard disk, there is nothing on the disk for the BIOS to boot from. You need to boot from the installation disk for your operating system. The OS installer will then let you create a partition and install to it.
Hi theres a couple of ways i can think of,
1st, buy a replacement board but needs to be the same model and just replace it. you might get a cheap one from ebay.
2nd, if you phone maxtor and tell them u have a faulty hard drive, with important files they ask you to send it to them and they give you a price to get the information off, i cant remember how much it was the last time but its possible.
all the best, and gl retrieving the info..
John
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