Musical Maxtor

[jens198]

Same here. RMAed it. Got a new(?) one back. Works fine so far. But never a Maxtor again.

Jens

[Xtreeme]

"Ppl have got to stop reviving these old topics--> 80Gb hd?! No way lol"

I dont get what the 80gig comments means. If that was in refrence to threads age! 80gig's are still very good and commen drive. Thats a good chunk of storage. LOL.

[DanU]

Very true. Just this month I upgraded my 80 gig pata seagate to a 250 gig sata hitachi deathst...errr... deskstar. So far I haven't heard of any widespread problems with the new deskstars.

[erectusx]

Hello to all. I found this thread on google, since I have a 200GB external Maxtor one touch and had 2 x 200GB WD USB&FireWire Combos. ALL OF THEM DEAD NOW I was wondering if it might have to do something with electricity. I moved to a brand new apartment and all three of my drives went dead on me within 6moths. Weird. I also had all of them pretty filled up with only about a Gig of free space and usually let them run overnight. I must admitt that under XP I'd usually just pulled out the USB cable and wouldn;t do that 'safely remove drive' procedure. I've been tapping the most recent victim (the musical maxtor without any luck for about 30 mins now....it's 1:30 in the morning and my hand hurts pretty bad now.) I hope all of you will be more lucky than me!!! CHeers. E.

[erectusx]

Hello to all. I found this thread on google, since I have a 200GB external Maxtor one touch and had 2 x 200GB WD USB&FireWire Combos. ALL OF THEM DEAD NOW I was wondering if it might have to do something with electricity. I moved to a brand new apartment and all three of my drives went dead on me within 6moths. Weird. I also had all of them pretty filled up with only about a Gig of free space and usually let them run overnight. I must admitt that under XP I'd usually just pulled out the USB cable and wouldn;t do that 'safely remove drive' procedure. I've been tapping the most recent victim (the musical maxtor without any luck for about 30 mins now....it's 1:30 in the morning and my hand hurts pretty bad now.) I hope all of you will be more lucky than me!!! CHeers. E.

[newbshack]

Sorry.... but the guy that was talkin about the "high school physics,". I have the same prob. This is no motor vibration, These are repeated beeps that are also ocuring to my masxtor.

Thank you for knowing everything

[AccuSpeed]

Thanks for your support. Appears the musical beeps indicate failure to spin up. Of the 4 techniques (freeze it, tap it, open it, twist it), I chose twist it. Grab the drive like you are unscrewing a jar lid, twist it fast back and forth with power applied. You (hopefully) will hear the clack of the unparking of the heads, and the whine of the drive spinning up. Reboot, and transfer that data to a new drive! You have saved my client lots of heartache (now will she back up and/or store data on her server???). Good luck, all!

[bdlou]

For those of you who have experienced this Maxtor Melody phenomenon, or for those of you who would like to experience it, I co-host an online tech/geek show called Downstairs Theater, and our latest episode, Episode 3, features a Maxtor 250GB hard drive that is in this state, and documents my attempt to bring it back to life with a rubber hammer, based on the info in this thread. It's good fun, and I hope you'll enjoy it!

http://www.downstairstheater.com

[Sweeper]

I just had a Maxtor 40GB die and it's doing the whole "Beeping" thing ..... I put it in the freezer ///////////// didn't fix it. Tapped it //////// didn't fix it /////// opened it ???? not sure what the heck is in there??? Pretty much junk to me.....

[clubsessions]

Thanks bdlou for wasting an hour of my time downloading and watching your homemade movie that you made in your mom's basement just to watch you fail to fix your hard drive! Now I still have a broken 250gb drive and I have lost an hour of valuable support searching. Thanks.