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Repair of a Maxtor External Storage Drive (ST3320620A)

harddrivespecialist — Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:48 pm

Author: harddrivespecialist

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 8:48 pm

Very good story with a lot of details.

For those looking for an ST3320620A

OldGuy — Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:42 pm

Author: OldGuy

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:42 pm

I gave the wrong reference. I actually posted this in the "More Stories" area.

Seagate Barracuda 320GB ST3320620A:firmware 3.AAE

OldGuy — Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:32 pm

Author: OldGuy

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:32 pm

acBrooks2,

Check the post I just entered in the General area. I recently repaired a drive that had suffered the identical problems. Read that post, and if this sounds like your problem, send me a note at Mike dot Simmons @ att dot net.

Expert advice needed (160GB Seagate 7200.7 IDE)

harddrivespecialist — Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:13 pm

Author: harddrivespecialist

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:13 pm

Aaron,

Unfortunately those programs are very expensive and they come with very expensive equipment. You looking at $10,000 minimum, plus time to learn it.

At the moment it could be relatively inexpensive to get your data back, but you can make things worth by scanning or tempering with your drive.

I had many cases when customer did not want to pay few hundred dollars for data recovery service and tryed to handle that problem on their own. Some of them came back with a bigger problem then original, which cost them much more money.

WANTED: 300GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 PCB

CrazyRussian540 — Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:49 am

Author: CrazyRussian540

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:49 am

I've been looking for a PCB for my drive for months now, but I don't want to pay $40 for it on ebay. Does anyone here have one cheaper?

Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 300Gb, PATA 133
Drive model 6B300R0
Code BAH41B10
Chip Beage 040116600

WD2500KS and WD2000JB

Kit — Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:57 am

Author: Kit

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:57 am

On the interface socket there is the label, the second group of figures should be identical.

Will sell soul for WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 PCB.

karibou — Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:36 am

Author: karibou

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:36 am

My 5-year old son plugged my laptop power supply into my WD-5000AAVS portable HD and fried it. I need a PCB. Really, really bad.

My drive's specs:
WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0
DCM: HHNCNTJMBN
P/N on PCB: 2061-701444-j00

Someone, please take pity on me.

Did I mention that the same son also cracked the 17" LCD on my laptop last month? I must have very, very bad digital karma.

Kari

I need WD2500BB and WD3000JB or their PCBs

shin_bontakun — Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:27 am

Author: shin_bontakun

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:27 am

up
I'm looking for a pcb board for WD3000JB.
Further details of my pcb board are:

P/N: WD3000JB - 00KFA0
PCB Number 2061-701314-A00 AF
DATE : 16th Oct 2005
DCM- DSCHCA2CH
S/N - WCAMR1586843
Product of Thailand

PCB: Seagate st380011a 9w2003-311

harddrivespecialist — Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:32 pm

Author: harddrivespecialist

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:32 pm

Hi!

I have a board for your drive.
Price is $49.95, plus shipping $2.00 US and $5.00 International.
If you wish to buy it, make a PayPal payment to harddrivespecialist@gmail.com

Thank you.

Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 7Y250P0 firmware request

Kit — Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:53 am

Author: Kit

Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:53 am

harddrivespecialist wrote:

SMART is a group of programs on a drive which monitor drive condition (health of the drive)
There is a problem with your drive, either its a number of realocated bad sectors or a read/write errors and etc.
SMART is notifying you about it.

It could be fixable, but you will need special hardware/software to do this.

I would not risk storing important data on that drive.

Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 250gb YAR41BW0 7Y250P00622R1 (PCB)

omnipotentwalrus — Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:29 pm

Author: omnipotentwalrus

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:29 pm

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..

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Hard drive problem

harddrivespecialist — Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:47 pm

Author: harddrivespecialist

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:47 pm

Aaron wrote:

I feel your pain...currently having a very similar issue with a 160GB IDE 7200.7. The difference is, my drive will still spin but makes a horrible clicking sound (very loud and piercing sound). Using an external USB case I can get Windows to see the data on the drive and can copy files off the drive if I'm willing to wait for an eternity and deal with the noise. I've tried the freezer trick and it sped up the transfer for a minute or two but didn't really make much difference. I'm interested to see what advice you get - specifically, what file recovery programs there are out there that are designed for recovering files from drives with potential/actual physical damage and not simply deleted or "lost" files (logical damage).

And if it makes you feel any better, among other things I have 16GB (10+ yrs) worth of photos alone that are stored on the drive. This is a lesson that I'll learn exactly once...

Unfortunately, there is no program for physical recovery.
You need a help of a pro.
Every time you running your drive and freezing, you decreasing chances of recovery.

Have Quantum Fireball Plus 60gb

radon220 — Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:10 pm

Author: radon220

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:10 pm

Have 1 Quantum Fireball Plus 60gb. No guarantee it's a working drive, but the PCB is good! Looks like it has been disassembled, but no visual defects... may actually work fine. I bought it for the PCB, which worked great for me. Now I'm done w/ it and will pass it along.

Don

Quantum Fireball 60gb (not "Plus")

radon220 — Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:54 pm

Author: radon220

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:54 pm

Looking for the PCB (or the whole drive) for a Quantum Fireball 60gb.

It came with some HP Pavilions from the 1999/2000 timeframe. This is NOT the PLUS version, which is more readily available and not compatible. I fried my PCB and it would be nice to get the data off of it.

Thanks!

DEAD 300GB WD NEED PCB

johndenver — Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:11 pm

Author: johndenver

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:11 pm

please post this in the "hard drives wanted" forum. this section is for HDDs you have for sale only -- thanks!