Solve : Maxtor drive ruined by computer crash. Reusable??

1.	Solve : Maxtor drive ruined by computer crash. Reusable??
Answer» Hi. My first post here. While performing a hdd erasure to an old 160gb Maxtor with Partedmagic tool, the computer crashed and the wiping process failed, making the drive unuseable again. Is there anything I can do to revive it? Kind regards Roberto Just re-start the process...did you do this in Windows ...or from a boot CD ? ?Maxtor hasn't been around for awhile so i wouldn't trust it as a main HDD...fine for some backups though.I did it from a bootable CD. I have restarted the process several TIMES with the same result: erased failed. The main purpose for the hdd was to store files temporarily. Quote I have restarted the process several times with the same result: erase failed. Kind of sounds like the disk doesn't want to play (i.e. it has failed). As has been said, it MUST be an old disk. If your curious as to the health of the drive you could try crystaldiskinfo on it, to see a detailed listing of stats about use of drive and any damages. But i'd toss that drive out and get a different one. Maxtor has been gone for a while now. Seagate bought them out. For a short while Seagate gave the Maxtor drives that had short warranties a 5 year warranty, and I was able to take a 500GB paperweight Maxtor and send it in for a healthy 500GB Seagate refurb drive. I doubt that your Maxtor has any warranty from seagate on it, but you could check with seagate if your curious, however if the drive has a date on it older than 5 years then I'd SAY your out of luck for a free replacement. My drive was 4 years old and I got a replacement under Seagate WHEREAS Maxtors warraty expired after 3 years i think it was. The drive dying shortly after its 3 yr birthday out of warranty. Friend of mine told me about Seagate buying Maxtor and offering 5 year warranty on the Maxtor line and it worked out very nice at the time to have a healthy 500GB Seagate returned to me at just the cost of shipping my dead Maxtor drive back to them.Thanks for the replies. I have owned that Maxtor for ten years now. The thing is that it worked okay until the moment the PC freezed while the earasure process was underway. Partedmagic clearly warns against turning off the computer while wiping the disk and I'm sure this caused the INABILITY of the hdd to function properly. I'll check it with the cristaldisk thing. Is there any sort of tool/application/program that can restore it back to set a new partition table to it?Parted Magic didn't do it...a disk intensive read/write process finally made the HDD die an old age... You could attempt running SeaTools on it...but i think it's days are officially over.No, SeaTools won't see it. I guess the Maxtor is no more. Thanks.Services will be held Saturday at 11:00...in lieu of flowers PC components can be donated. R.I.P.Now confirmed. The PartedMagic postmortem examination clearly states that Mr Maxtor passed away due to old age. Rest in peace.

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Hi. My first post here.

While performing a hdd erasure to an old 160gb Maxtor with Partedmagic tool, the computer crashed and the wiping process failed, making the drive unuseable again. Is there anything I can do to revive it?

Kind regards
Roberto
Just re-start the process...did you do this in Windows ...or from a boot CD ? ?Maxtor hasn't been around for awhile so i wouldn't trust it as a main HDD...fine for some backups though.I did it from a bootable CD. I have restarted the process several TIMES with the same result: erased failed. The main purpose for the hdd was to store files temporarily. Quote

I have restarted the process several times with the same result: erase failed.

Kind of sounds like the disk doesn't want to play (i.e. it has failed). As has been said, it MUST be an old disk.

If your curious as to the health of the drive you could try crystaldiskinfo on it, to see a detailed listing of stats about use of drive and any damages. But i'd toss that drive out and get a different one. Maxtor has been gone for a while now. Seagate bought them out. For a short while Seagate gave the Maxtor drives that had short warranties a 5 year warranty, and I was able to take a 500GB paperweight Maxtor and send it in for a healthy 500GB Seagate refurb drive. I doubt that your Maxtor has any warranty from seagate on it, but you could check with seagate if your curious, however if the drive has a date on it older than 5 years then I'd SAY your out of luck for a free replacement. My drive was 4 years old and I got a replacement under Seagate WHEREAS Maxtors warraty expired after 3 years i think it was. The drive dying shortly after its 3 yr birthday out of warranty. Friend of mine told me about Seagate buying Maxtor and offering 5 year warranty on the Maxtor line and it worked out very nice at the time to have a healthy 500GB Seagate returned to me at just the cost of shipping my dead Maxtor drive back to them.Thanks for the replies. I have owned that Maxtor for ten years now. The thing is that it worked okay until the moment the PC freezed while the earasure process was underway. Partedmagic clearly warns against turning off the computer while wiping the disk and I'm sure this caused the INABILITY of the hdd to function properly. I'll check it with the cristaldisk thing. Is there any sort of tool/application/program that can restore it back to set a new partition table to it?Parted Magic didn't do it...a disk intensive read/write process finally made the HDD die an old age...
You could attempt running SeaTools on it...but i think it's days are officially over.No, SeaTools won't see it. I guess the Maxtor is no more. Thanks.Services will be held Saturday at 11:00...in lieu of flowers PC components can be donated.

R.I.P.Now confirmed. The PartedMagic postmortem examination clearly states that Mr Maxtor passed away due to old age. Rest in peace.

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