maxtors suck

[SalaTar]

STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure}
The registry cannot load the hive (file):
\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent, or not writeable.


nothing like a bad one in less than a month

[Mntsnow]

Sorry to hear of your woes bud...but I love my Maxtors...Had much less problems with them than WD or others.

[NDC]

Yeah, so that was why you were experiencing problems the other day, huh? Bad hard drive... :(

[jadison]

Well, I've only had experience with a few maxtors...
The HD I had in my last system was a Maxtor DiamondMax 15GB drive...installed into a Epox MVP3C-m w/K62 500, when I OC'ed to 550MHz (w/plenty of cooling of course), the HD basically failed. I purchased it for $100 just a couple of weeks prior to the OC.

As far as why Maxtors are cheaper than most other brands is still a mystery to me, but unless I need a backup HD, I go with Western Digital.

-=jd=-

[SalaTar]

I've checked the drive with there check tool...seems fine then I almost had it going again with a old reg file till I mess with the via drivers and it hosed the boot sector

[Welsh Wizard]

Sal I have had a number of drives die of late, mostly within the last two weeks, Seagate, Maxtor, Western Dig, etc all drives fitted within last four months,

Fault they started with is file missing etc, and drive gets worse till no boot, and not recognised by BIOS.

then this week a Seagate came in that had only bee sent out 8 days ago in a new system, this was also dead, Epox mobo in case, aas I was replaceing the drive any way I thought I would upgrade the BIOS to recognise the 1600XP chips the way AMD want, this is when I came across some thing Odd, the Bios checksum did not match the revision, so I stopped before flashing, I then used my old faithfull hard drive to check the system out, 1st boot fine, second boot came up with file missing,

At this I thought some thing might be wrong in another department, and checked the log file, only to find that it showed prob bios anti virus, about 10 times.

At this I removed the BIOS chip and erased it, and then reprogramed it with the version that it should have had acording to the revision #, replaced it in the Mobo, then ran the flash this time Checksum matched the revision #, so I upgraded it the the later one,

As for my Test Hard Drive I Zero filled it and reinstalled all the OS's and Test software, the ran it on the Epox system, no problems no matter how many times I rebooted,

I keep the AV right up to date with my test drives so can't say if there is some virus that is nailing the BIOS or the hard drives, but I am very suspicious.

WW

[Ritalin Kid]

I believe as long as there are moving mechanical parts in our computer components then there will always be failure at one point or another... I've had probs with all various brands of drives... even maxtor yet maxtor has always been the easiest to deal with whenever I had a HD go bad... and their performance has been top notch IMO. ;)

[otheos]

All HD's may go bad. So as long as there are no batch problems (like the GXP75's) and with performance matching one another, I personally pick the one that offers the best support. I'm currently using maxtor and will do so untill they let me down when I'll move on (like I did from IBM).

Sorry for your loss, but if the drive says is ok, make sure the OS is not messing it up. Use it on a different system maybe.