Maxtor Repair Tools
SeaTools - Quick diagnostic tool that checks the health of your drive. Download Maxtor Disk Repair Utility - best software for Windows. Flobo Hard Disk Repair: Flobo Hard Disk Repair 4.1 is a program designed to fix hard disks damaged.
Is your hard drive broken? Is it hardware or software? Problem Powers on but BIOS doesn't see it correctly (size and partition) DOS tools don't work. Mantle Download 1.7.10 here. Windows doesn't work Solution Software. Go to the Hard drive manufacturer site and download and make their boot floppy or boot CD.
Use their software tools. For example low level format the drive, which takes a few hours but makes the drive workable again.
The drive is empty but not broken. FDISK format etc.
Problem Doesn't power on. Solution Find broken part and replace it. Difficulty is high as it's hard to tell what part is broken. I accidentally broke my hard drive. I had my tower case on its side and powered on, the hard drive was on its component side down.
The hard drive accidentally moved and short circuited on a mounting screw on the grounded frame of the case.I was lucky in the sense I could easily see the broken part. A transisitor on the circuit board broke/exploded/popped in a second.Hopefully this was the only broken part. I needed a soldering gun (red) solder (spool) desolder-er aka solder sucker. (blue item) Replacement part. I went to a local electronics store and had a very difficult time. I didn't go to the famous store that sells a 20 cent part for $5. Convertitore Usb Seriale Schema Elettrico. 00.
I went to a well know one here in Montreal it starts with something similar to a '+'. I knew the part number D1758 aka BTD1758J3 type TO-252 NPN epitaxial planar transistor from a google search. This store that sells all electronic parts resistor,capacitors, transistors etc would not sell me a replacement. They had the NTE master replacement book but they don't sell NTE. Out of curiousity I asked for another common electronics part and amongst their 5 massive shelves of raw parts couldn't find it. So I have to conclude their shelving is all for show to impress costumers or people working there have no knowledge of electronics.