Hello! This is Apoorva here. I found yr posting on this forum & I read the word Maxtor so I clicked on yr topic and found you are facing some issues with yr Maxtor Hard Disk. I myself once was using Maxtor hard disk but then hard disk caught bad sectors. So, I sent in for an replacement and then I purchased a new Hard Disk of another company called as Western Digital. Its a very good hard disk! I would suggest you to go for a buy back option wherein you have to give yr existing hard disk to your computer engineer and tell him that I want to purchase a new hard disk of company called Western Digital and adjust the amount of this maxtor hard disk against that new hard disk that you will be purchasing. Or, if you are not intrested in buy back option since u feel that u are not getting much return for yr existing maxtor hard disk then you can either put it on an auction sites like
www.bazee.com or you can sell yr hard disk to yr friend and the amount that you get can be used in purchasing a new hard disk.
The website for Western Digital is :
www.wdc.com
Anyway, Bye for now...
Apoorva.
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Originally Posted by IneRtia dRaft
Stall maxtor hard drive 40GB.
Bios does not detect primary ide hard drive, but detect slave ide hard drive.
When in boot, the screen shows up with a error message: "Drive is not ready and the system is halted."
Sometimes when the hard drive and the primary are being detected, the computer is really slow, as in no resond from the hard drive.
No noise is coming from the hard drive or a flash of a busy signal light.
Can it be a bad hard drive? Or could it be a power plug problem ?
When installing, the new slave hard drive came along with a new ide cable so i swapped cables.
Before installing the slave hard drive, the same error message happened again with the primary hard drive.
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