Maxtor d540x-4k

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I've got a Maxtor d540x-4k that I've been using for the past year or
so. The other day it just stopped working. When starting up my
computer I'm getting an error about a disk failure and asks for a
bootable disk. The hard drive itself sounds like someone took a
ping pong ball and dropped it in a glass. It does this twice and
never really spins up.

What I neeed to know is, is there a way to diagnose and/or fix this
problem or am I SOL? I'd appreciate any help or insight.

Matt
 
I've got a Maxtor d540x-4k that I've been using for the past
year or so. The other day it just stopped working. When
starting up my computer I'm getting an error about a disk
failure and asks for a bootable disk. The hard drive itself
sounds like someone took a ping pong ball and dropped it
in a glass. It does this twice and never really spins up.
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What I neeed to know is, is there a way to diagnose
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I've just done that, she's dead, Jim.

That noise is the drive recalibrating when
it cant read the platters at drive init time.
and/or fix this problem
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You might be able to replace the logic
card with one from and identical drive.
or am I SOL?
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Yep, very likely.
 
Previously mraymus said:
I've got a Maxtor d540x-4k that I've been using for the past year or
so. The other day it just stopped working. When starting up my
computer I'm getting an error about a disk failure and asks for a
bootable disk. The hard drive itself sounds like someone took a
ping pong ball and dropped it in a glass. It does this twice and
never really spins up.
Click to expand...
What I neeed to know is, is there a way to diagnose and/or fix this
problem or am I SOL? I'd appreciate any help or insight.
Click to expand...

If the data is important, don't mess with it, don't power it up and
give it to a professional data recovvery company for recovery.

Otherwise thing thing is dead.

Arno
 
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