Maxtor 3.5 Series Firmware ISO Help urgent

[yassintrancer]

Thanks for the link i will buy it fingers crossed i will let you know if its all okay thank you so much for the help guys I ALREADY recovered all my data to my 4TB this 40gb is the only thing left cheers

[yassintrancer]

How did you know this drive is gonna work i see some diffrences there just wanna make sure

[mikail13]

8 gb or 0 gb indicates that

1) PCB isn't original or
2) Firmware corruption

most likely..

AFAIK Rom swap isn't necessary at older HDD. 40 GB disk is for museum now.

[yassintrancer]

Yeah thats what i thought

[dick]

As the poster doesn't seem to want to pay for services and is seemingly prepared to risk/loose all there might be another option regarding any firmware repairs.

There was a very old hacked bit of software from many years ago called 'MRT Maxtor' and is likely to be floating about. It is so old now I don't think anybody would care if I mention it.

One would need to run it on a 32 bit OS like XP or maybe Win 7 x86 and copy the smport.sys file to the system32 folder. The drive needs to be installed on the secondary ide port.

[yassintrancer]

I searched but i cant find anything

[yassintrancer]

Just the software ? Should i put my hard drive to safe mode?