N40P

[lhuser]

Well, here it is: I have A maxtor 6E040L0 that started to act up a year ago.

The drive came slowly unreadable...and when I diagnosed the drive a couple of months before, it was fine..but when it became unreadable, it was chuncked of errors. What I did was a low format (full) and it jammed. Next thing on reboot, the drive is N40P...nice. SMART popped up an error and all that crap with it.

I've been looking at Maxtor HDD Firmware Repairer Pro, but for 400 bucks, I think it's almost like ripped off. PC3000 is russian, and I barely understand what they say and hacking stuff on this is suicide for me.

Is there anywhere I could get a good free firmware repairer for the drive? Another thing is: I could care less about the data in...it's almost full of 0s and the data is backed up years ago. So losing data I don't care...as long as I can have the storage back.

[dmarques]

If you got your data saved, best thing is to throw the drive to the garbage.

[pcimage]

Agree, dont waste your time on a $30 drive!

It mybe fixable, but without suitable tools, impossible!

Sean

[Starling]

Relax, it's dead.
It's gone bad because g-list is overflown during wiping. That means that it is full of bad sectors and it's never going to work anymore...