Maxtor ARES 64K 2F020J0 (VAM51JJ0) 'Initialization error'

[yco]

Greetings everybody!

HDD is spinning, cannot hear any knocking, detected by PC3000 UDMA as:

Code:

Model: Maxtor ARES C64K
Serial:
Firmware: VAM51JJZ
Capacity: 38.29GB (80 295 529)

It shows following error when trying to start Utility:

Code:

Initialization error
Context: Read roadmap
Content: Device error detected

Is there any chance to get data back from this drive? I don't have the same drive to create a loader. Any suggestions?

[rameez]

Load any loader of any Aresc64k drive if u dont have download from hddguru files section enter the utility and create loader from there and restart the procedure again .

[yco]

Hi rameez,
I used a loader from Download section (for 40GB HDD) and it worked. It was G-List deffect, cleaned it and it helped.

Thanks for all help, greetings, Pawel