Maxtor hard drive needs a chip replacing

The latest drivers and support would be available from the Seagate website. The Seatools utility is an excellent tool that is also available.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/

I hope this helps.

I am unsure if you are trying to take a currently external drive and mount it internally, or if you are trying to make an internal drive into an external. Please clarify.

since you have been connecting another hard drive and plugging the leads in/out

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your motherboard to your hard drive make sure they have a secure connection

i would also suggest you buy another PSU power supply unit preferably a heavy duty one with plenty of wattage when you add more devices ram,hard drives,cd/dvd recorders it drains more power from the power supply unit placing more strain on your computers PSU

and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty

One bad lead will cause your computer to continue in a cycle
replace all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA and the ones that attach from your motherboard to hard drive
hope this helps

Hi,
Find the jumper settings for the maxtor harddrive on the following link. As per the model number you gave ,it seems like you have the maxtor diamond max drive.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=379

Thanks
proton

The maxtor hard drives will work with an Xbox360 but in only one case, your xbox hard drive is linked to work only with your console and if you swapped hard drives the xbox wouldn't read it so to answer this you need to reset your Xbox 360 copy protection serial number i.e. Flashing your Xbox or Chipping it, once your Xbox is Flashed or Chipped you can use a maxtor hard drive through the SATA cable port in your Xbox

If you mean remove your old 80 gb drive and replacing with the Maxtor 500 gb drive you should be able to. The Maxtor 21 series is equiped with SATA. Just make sure that your computer can run SATA. If not, I believe that there are adapters out there.

Dear Friend,

Point your browser to
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/maxtor/87000D8-DIAMOND-MAX-7000MB-3-5-SL-ATA3.html

or

for more drives to
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/maxtor/

Alternatively
JumpersMAXTOR DIAMOND MAX INSTALLATION SHEET
Jumper Setting
==============

+---+---+---+---+---+ |J50|J48|J46|J44|J42| +-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+ | Master/Slave | | | | | | | Only Drive in single drive system* | J | | | | | +-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+ | Master in a dual drive system* | J | | | | | +-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+ | Slave in a dual drive system | O | | | | | +-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+ | Cable Select | | | | | | | Disabled* | | O | | | | +-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+ | Enabled | | J | | | | +-------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+ J=Jumpered O=Open *=Default

This looks like documentation from the time but it is not from a manufacturer's site.

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/maxtor/87000D8-DIAMOND-MAX-7000MB-3-5-SL-ATA3.html

near bottom of page.

It is possible to replace/transplant the circuit board. But I am not sure of the motor and the platters. I would suggest you not to play around with the platters. If you wish to replace the circuit board (I guess it is also called the logic card) get a hdd of the same make and size and replace it with this one.