Hi folk


I have purchase about two month ago a HD SATA 500Gb MAXTOR mod. MAXLINE 7H500F0. Until two day ago the hard disk worked perfectly. For inexpicable reasons, after a reboot of windows xp, the hard disk is not recognized by bios. The strange thing is that after five or six reboot machine the bois find the hard disk but with name " Maxtor Grizzly" but the hard disk isn't bootable. I supposed that the firmware is corrupted and I
pray you to send me informations for upgrade the firmware of my hard disk or resolve my problem because into hard disk there are many important
(very important) data.
Thanks a lot.

p.s. The data on the label of my hard disk are:

S.N.: H80W632H
TLA: 7H500F008A5RA
Mfg date:28MAR2006
Code: HA431DD0
N,G,B,A
LBA: 976773168
WWN: 50010750400EE06B

Probably you have a firmware problem.
If data is important send it to a data recovery company.

PC3000 does not support this disk, so you need to send it to advanced data recovery company
For example : http://services.seagate.com

but can't I update the firmware? A data recovery company cost so much...
Doesn't exist a way to repair the firmware?

help me please...

If data recovery cost too much - buy a new drive and relax

Into hard disk there are very important data and I can't lose them.
I repeat:

There's a way to repair or update the firmware?

No way for you
Because there are no repair tools now which you can get for free or buy for this disk

Excuse but the Maxtor/seagate can help me?? Can they give me a firmware and relative way for update it for my hard disk? I'm very sad...
Possible doesn't exist a way???

nothing?

Hi to all

Today Maxtor send me a file with relative procedure for update firmware. The update firmware program detect firmware of my hard disk but unfortunately during the process of update appears a message:"Busy time out" or "Time out waiting for ready"
Someone can help me?

On which controller did you try the update?
I had lots of "fun" updating my Maxtor Sabre (not Grizzly). You can read my story here:
http://forum.hddguru.com/maxline-iii-pr ... t6517.html

Which controller? But do you say why appears those messages? I have the Maxtor code load utility 2.034, ant the "ha431dn0-00.dmc"... can I try the last Maxtor code load utility? Can you give me it?
Thanks.

What disk controller do you have? Silicon Image? nForce? Intel?

Regards,
weaker

uhm.. my motherboard is ASUS P4P800 se. Can you see a controller here? http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?mode ... 2=12&l3=31

But do you know why appears those message during firmware upgrade?

It has got the Intel ICH5R controller.
I had this message, too. Was shown because the dload utility couldn't talk correctly to the controller. You should have the maxtor drive connected as the only drive. And read the instructions Maxtor sent you carefully.

Regards,
weaker

During the firmware upgrade only a sata drive is connected...and what instructons do you say?

up...

No way, seriously.
There are no tools on the market for this family at the moment. Only in-house custom-built solutions in Actionfront and maybe Ontrack

But obviously Maxtor are shipping their utility dload v2.034 with this firmware update (according to wizard85). So what would be the point in shipping that utility if it doesn't work?