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Simcut

Hi all,

I'm looking for either the hard drive or the PCB for the Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250gb Hard Drive which is code YAR41BW0 and 7Y250P00622R1

Please help! Smile

Thanks

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject:

Hi!
If you still looking for a board for this drive, let me know.
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Simcut · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject:

Yes please mate Smile

Simcut · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:50 am Post subject:

The replacement PCB arrived but I've tried it today and even though the drive spins up, the BIOS recognizes it as a "Maxtor Calypso" (but the drive is a Maxtor MaxLine Plus II) and it also puts it as an "IDE Master" and when I try to boot into Windows, windows says about a boot disk failure.

I've tried removing the jumper on the hard drive but then Windows doesnt recognise the drive. It seems to only recognise the drive when its set to 'master' - but then windows thinks my IDE drive is the windows boot disk and not my 3 SATA drives Sad

Please help!?

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject:

You can attach a drive while your system is running.

Calypso is a Family name.

It seems that you have corrupted modules on your drive.

What was an original cause for a drive failure? Power surge?
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Simcut · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject:

Yep power surge, the power connector sparked (I saw the flash from the side of my case) and the hard drive never got power again....what can I do next mate?

the BIOS recognises the drive as Calypso as I said, but I cant boot into windows (for some reason the system tries to read the IDE drive before my normal SATA drives!)

Also when I go in the bios and look at the calypso drive it says 0gb

Any suggestions on what I can do now?

Help! Sad

Simcut · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

Okay, reading on the internet it looks like my firmware module is corrupted, so it looks like the only thing I have left is to send off the drive to a data recovery place. The problem is that:-

a) the original PCB died completely, so they will need to replace that
b) the firmware module is corrupted

Sounds like its going to cost me a lot unfortunately Sad

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I can offer to take a look at the drive and diagnose exact problem with it.

I do like the fact that the drive does not click with a new board. That makes me 95% sure that heads have not failed from power surge.

I will do diagnostics for free and will let you know a price also.

Original board is not necessary for me.
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Simcut · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject:

The drive does take ages to read though, it doesnt make clicking sounds....

Would you be able to repair the drive at all?

harddrivespecialist · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

Simcut · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject:

Sorry I didnt word the first bit properly. I meant that the BIOS took a while to recognise the drive.

How much money wise are we looking at for you to repair it?

Thanks Smile

omnipotentwalrus · Officially active! Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

Hi guys, I got here through a google search looking up some info for this drive... my predicament is pretty unique as I understand it, and unlike anything I've run up against before. I'm fixing a compaq presario 8000 that has one of these drives (Maxtor MaxLine Plus II) that crashed and came back from the dead... I managed to get the desired data off of it already through some disk recovery software on my main desktop, and also managed afterward to do a quick NTFS format on the whole drive (wiping out original system part. as well as restore part.) and completely installed windows - everything is running fine. The thing is, sometime in the process of trying a few different data recovery softwares somehow the drive's firmware became convinced that it's bad and the SMART is going off at me from the Award BIOS every time I boot. On my desktop my BIOS lets me turn off the warning, but on the Compaq I have to hit F2 to continue every time... takes me all the way to windows, I even ran chkdsk on the drive, defragged it, ran fixboot, fixmbr and all, no errors coming up anymore. And yet, I'm hesitant to put their data back on the new partition yet over the network... Should I accept what SMART is telling me and pull the drive, replace it and reformat that one to play it safe, or am I on the right track with thinking it's something in the firmware and trying to repair it? There exists a maxtor firmware repair utility provided free from www.salvationdata.com but none of the downloads work - a thousand sites across google have the link but they all refer to the same dead file (not findable through their main page, either.). I finally tracked down one that I thought was perfect from a file mirror, but it turned out to be for another specific model! And I used my last CD to burn all 1MB of it, though of course it tells me this only after it's burned and booted. ARGH. That and maxtor (now owned by seagate I guess) doesn't supply specific drive firmware updates, and their MaxBlast software is opening and then doing nothing on both computers I try to run it on... I found what I think is the raw firmware, but without some kind of windows utility or some knowledge of how to turn it into a boot disk or what, I don't know how to use it. Is it OK to keep hitting F2 to continue, or is this drive doomed? Thanks for whatever help I can get..
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