Problems with 60Gb Maxtor DiamondMax +9

[Karlos]

Hi all,

My poor mate Andy has really won the jackpot in the sh!t sweepstakes this alst few days.

Some odd electrical surge fried his whole PC, which he's had had to buy all new parts for.

Anyway, to cut a long (and sad) story short, its sat here and a brand new HD refuses to format properly.

It's a 60GB Maxtor DiamondMax +9, ATA133 7200RPM. It formats then refuses to write the partition table :-(

I've checked the cables, BIOS settings and just about everything else obvious, but can't find any faults. The motherboard and hard drive are the same models as he owned previously (Asus A7V8X-X motherboard).

Other than the chance the drive is duff, any other possibilities?

Cheers,

K

[Karlos]

GadgetMaster wrote:

If its brand new and it refuses to format in any PC then take it straight back for a replacement. If a fault ocurs in the first few days the shop should take it back. It shouldn't take the retailer too long to test that it is indeed faulty.

Well, its definately duff. Poor feller has set off home empty handed leaving his PC here for me to sort out. He has to work tomorrow and we didnt have time to return the drive today.

This way the onus is on the sipplier to get the RMA sorted with the manufacturer. (Well actually it is usualy passed to another middleman distributor before it get to the Mfr. )

Fortunately the returns dept. of the shop we got it from is rather friendly so I don't anticipate a problem with return. The plan is to get a credit note and replace with a different drive tomorrow.

What do people reckon to Western Digital? Theres a 40G drive that has 8Mb cache but only manages ATA100 that Andy liked the look of as a replacement here.

Anyway, good luck. I hope you get it sorted without too much trouble.

Cheers. I bought a new case today to install another PC motherboard I have lying around so there are now 5 tower systems (and a pair of 1200D's) kicking around! It's getting really silly :-)

[Karlos]

IBM, eh? There were some Deskstars. Any good in your opinion?

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Theres an old 10G maxtor in my A1200T :nervous: