Maxtor 3.5 Series Firmware ISO Help urgent

[yassintrancer]

Hello guys i have a probelm i changed The motherboard of my Maxtor IDE hard drive so i can recover data from it the problem i have is that one motherboard shows only 8gb in space aand the other one 0.00 GB so i thought i need a firmware update My info are

Maxtor 3.5 Series
DiamondMax plus 8
ATA/133 HDD 40 GB
LBA8029248
Code:NAR61EA0
6E040L0711014
ABA
E1QYZ65E
K,M,C,A

[yassintrancer]

thnks for the quick reply man the drive spin correctly the only problem is in the firmware of the new two motherboards can i repair it with a bootable cd ? like hirens boot cd or something else please let me know

[yassintrancer]

the drive wasnt spinning with the old drive the motherboard fried but with the new one spins perfectly but not detectable only in bios

[yassintrancer]

im no longer have the old pcb thats the problem what time of tools your talking about

[yassintrancer]

where is the rom chips you where talking about i attached my motherboard image

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[rogfanther]

I do not have my annotations ready, but from memory you would need a board with the same firmware version as stated in those barcode stickers in the connector part of your board. Or would need the right software to read it from the MCU ( the big chip in your picture ) from the original board.

If you lost the original board, well, at least you would need good pictures of the entire drive so that one can see the codes.

Lacking an adequate tool, had to sift through a big pile of drives once to find a compatible one. I didn´t like those Maxtor slim drives, and that work just reinforced my opinion.

[fzabkar]

@yassintrancer, this page tells you what to match:
https://www.hdd-parts.com/20091329.html

[yassintrancer]

thanks guys i will try to find the exact match for my drive HOW CAN I BUY ONLINE and know that it will work 100% ? you have all my info now

[yassintrancer]

here it is but i dont have my original board those are the two i have right now but i will try to find other ones tomorrow
i dont care if they get dammaged in the process i just need to get my data back ill give it a try

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[yassintrancer]

Help please

[fzabkar]

According to hddparts.com, you need ...

Code (on label): NAR61EA0
Model (on label): 6E040L0
Main controller (on original PCB): ???

[yassintrancer]

No i lost the original long time ago those are the only i have right now

[yassintrancer]

Okay i will try different pcbs

[pcimage]

99% certain this will have other issues apart from PCB.

Most common issue is overflowed GList on N40P

I believe there was a free “fix” for this somewhere on the net.

[pcimage]

99% certain this will have other issues apart from PCB.

Most common issue is overflowed GList on N40P

I believe there was a free “fix” for this somewhere on the net.

Agree !!!

But the first issue is to find the PCB that will work or get the ROM from SA to flash on the available PCB. Only then you can check SA.

The "free" fix was a very old DEMO of a SD tool but it's LIMITED to Maxtor 541DX (2B020H1 2B010H1) - "Maxtor Athena". This tool will NOT WORK on N40P. The tool is posted on my site (SD Section) and also on the HDDGuru file section ...

Ah OK, now I remember! It was some years ago!

[pcimage]

I get the feeling the OP doesn’t wanna spend a cent.

[yassintrancer]

I really dont know what to do anymore

[pcimage]

Send it to spildit, he’ll be a lot cheaper than me!

[guru]

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maxtor-6E040L0 ... 2025817908?

You may be lucky

[yassintrancer]

Exact same replica i guess :,(