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Hello.
I have a maxtor 4D040H2 hdd as my extra store hdd. It's a 40gb hd. I was working fine for a month but then it broke down. When i have it pluged in (IDE and powe) and i turn my computer on i hear clicking noises. I called up maxtor and they said it was hardware problem. They recommended i call ontarck a data recovery place. They said they charge like at least 200 dollars for recovery. If anybody has a solution plz do tell. Thank You!!

Subzuki · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject: Clicking noises

Well,
in my experiences, if it is clicking, then changing the board won't help.
I have tried changing the boards on a few drives that were clicking and they were still clicking after the swap. I don't know what causes that, but I would suspect that the spindle that the heads are on is stuck and can't move back and forth across the platters? Only thing I can think of. If the info on the disk is really important, you *may* have no choice but to go to a place like Ontrack. 200 bucks isn't bad considering it was thousands of dollars not to long ago.
Subzuki

DATARECOVERYTORONTO · Deadharddrive regular Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 21

ontrack wont charge that type of money your be looking at $1500
for there recovery side
the problem with your hard drive is corrupted information
maxtor hard drives have a very well known problem for doing this
at the moment we are looking into all recovery of maxtor hard drives
with the same problem as you

mascal4 · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:02 am Post subject: Don't touch Maxtor ever again.

It doesn't look good. I had exactly the same problem and I tried basically everything except data recovery. Bye bye data. Sorry mate Confused