Maxtor 5T040H4

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Hello, All!

I have two Maxtor 5T040H4 harddisks in my PC.
The primary (boot) one has two partitions, C: (10 Mb) and D: (30 Mb).
The secondary has one partition, E: (40Mb)
The PC and the disks are appr. 3 years old.

Since 8 months, when booting, sometimes there's a sound, like a soft beep
from the disk and the primary is not recognised. Sometimes it is recognised
(no beep), but I'm "advised to backup my data ASAP, because the primary will
fail soon". And sometimes everything seems OK and booting goes normally.
Once WinXP is running, there's never a problem.

I have replaced the IDE cable form the motherboard recently. At that time I
cleaned my computer and the disks, there was much dust. After a few days the
problem was gone and I had a fawless booting PC for months. But now, since a
few weeks, the problem returns and gets worse.

Is my primary indeed giving up? Or is this a know phenomenon that can be
solved?

With best regards, EDJO.
 
Hello, All!

I have two Maxtor 5T040H4 harddisks in my PC.
The primary (boot) one has two partitions, C: (10 Mb) and D: (30 Mb).
The secondary has one partition, E: (40Mb)
The PC and the disks are appr. 3 years old.

Since 8 months, when booting, sometimes there's a sound, like a soft beep
from the disk and the primary is not recognised. Sometimes it is recognised
(no beep), but I'm "advised to backup my data ASAP, because the primary will
fail soon". And sometimes everything seems OK and booting goes normally.
Once WinXP is running, there's never a problem.

I have replaced the IDE cable form the motherboard recently. At that time I
cleaned my computer and the disks, there was much dust. After a few days the
problem was gone and I had a fawless booting PC for months. But now, since a
few weeks, the problem returns and gets worse.

Is my primary indeed giving up? Or is this a know phenomenon that can be
solved?

With best regards, EDJO.
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yes it's dying, backup the data then run the Maxtor
diagnostics. IIRC, the drive might still be within the
now-abandoned 3 year warranty period.

FWIW, I've had two different 5T040H4 drives fail... the 2nd
was a brand-new RMA replacement for the first. After the
second failed recently they shipped me a 6E040L, which is a
thin liquid bearing 7K2 2MB Plus8. Have no idea what the
performance is like, haven't opened it yet but I expect it's
roughly 25% faster... but that's still relatively slow
compared to some of the newer drives.

Note that when mine failed, it'd been beeping for awhile and
disappearing like yours but I just ignored it as it wasn't a
primary drive and I'd backed everything up, but when it did
decide to finally fail it was gone for good, suddenly it was
permanently gone... get the drive replaced asap.
 
go to www.maxtor.com and download their either their powermax software or
maxblast- cant remember which, ones for hard drive status and the others for
partitioning etc., obviously you want the one to check status.

FingAZ.
 
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