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Had this drive for under a year and it has failed on me. I am trying to recover data, but its not looking too good. Takes a while for me to even get windows to recognize that there is another HDD... more

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  • 19 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    1 Star Quick review of Maxtor DiamondMax 17 160 GB by mws257 04/08/2008
    Had this drive since December 2007 and now it has failed...It's ok in BIOS but once in windows xp it says 'Hard drive ID missing' contact ......etc etc. My concern is that I have another drive exactly the same as this on the same system....So how long? A day? A week? A month?
  • 0 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Dan39

    2 Stars Seemed good, until it failed on me. 25/08/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

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    Had this drive for under a year and it has failed on me. I am trying to recover data, but its not looking too good. Takes a while for me to even get windows to recognize that there is another HDD connected(not using it as primary drive, just an extra for storage, luckily), and then it says it is not formatted with any file system, and cannot read it. I am positive it is a NTFS with like 140 GB of data on it. I didn't do anything for it to fail. I was just using it one day and it started to act funny, some files taking long to read, some going corrupt, and now it wont even work. Data recovery ... more

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Product Details

Product Description Maxtor DiamondMax 17 - hard drive - 160 GB - ATA-133, Maxtor DiamondMax 17 - hard drive - 160 GB - SATA-300
Type Hard drive - internal
Capacity 160 GB
Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H
Interface ATA-133, Serial ATA-300

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