I also have HDD maxtor DiamondMax plus 8, 6e020L0510231, KGGA
the factory size is 20GB, but in my BIOS it detected as 40GB, the harddisk become fail.
I have try using MHDD to fix it, but I can't. Can anyone help me ?
My friend told me that is the firmware problem. so I must to search for the firmware to fix it.
is there any software I can use to fix the problem ?
I already see this forum... - almost everybody said It can fix using pc3000 ???
regards
Tony

First of all, say, which firmware version shows drive? It must be NARxxxx, if it is NCRxxxx or NBRxxxx, you need specialist to do recovery.

it NAR61590. can you help me ???
what it's the different between NARXXXX, NCRXXXX, and NBRXXXX????

if anything with the firmware? can I fix it ?? and which tools (software or Hardware ) I must to use ????

thanks.

All DiamondMax plus 8 drives are intended to be 40GB. If the initial test in the factory reveals too many defects it could be formatted as 30GB and even 20GB in order to appear as deffect-free. The MAXLBA parameter is set to a new value. If this value cannot be read during the drive initialization the default one is used and the drive reports 40GB.

Are you sure about this?

So? have any suggestion to fix it ?? cause I have many important data inside the harddrive.
I also have read (other forum) that we can just use fixMBR (or others MBR tools). and It's work well.
I try it. but I fail. can anybody help me ???

many thanks.

Rewrite passport module (1F) from drive of 20 giga. Possible problem of this drive is only passport module. BUT NOT TUCH OTHER MODULES IF YOU NEED DATA!!!

Maxtor n40p ?

Hi tonyht,
You shoul better take it to some Data recovery Company!
Otherway if you do not know what to do you may loose your data forever.
IMHO nobody can say something concrete util he see the SA structure...