Up until a few months ago i had been a fan of Maxtor hard drives. I had always put them in mine and friends’ computers and never had any problems. A few months ago my external USB 80GB took a dump and WinXP couldn’t read anything. I booted to W2K and it found disk errors and fixed them. A few days went by and XP had a problem again so i went to reboot into W2K. For some reason, it wouldn’t get passed BIOS memory test. “What the shit?” i thought to myself. I reboot again, and this time i get keyboard/mouse errors in BIOS. Thinking i then had a bad keyboard i ran downstairs to get the PS2 keyboard instead of the wireless usb i was using. Rebooted and then it says my AGP slot had an error. WTF IS GOING ON?!?!
So i disconnected everything external i didn’t need and XP came up right as the rain. Plug in the USB and it detects it but can’t read a god damned thing on it, says it needs to be formatted - no fucking way i’m doing that. I went to maxtor.com and got some new drivers. And lickety split, that actually worked for this piece of shit. No more problems right? HA!!
A couple weeks later, my internal SATA 120GB gave me errors when booting. I couldn’t get to XP, W2K, Recovery Console, or Automated System Repair, everything led to a BSOD. I put the XP setup cd in and booted to reinstall XP. Loaded the scsi drivers for the hard drive but once i told Setup to do a new install i got the BSOD. I called maxtor and asked them what the hell was going on and the mop said i had to do a low level format - which i thought was unheard of nowadays. I gave in since i didn’t care about the local disk, all my goods are safely on the USB. It took 17 hours to low level format and at least the fucker worked again.
Last week the USB had the same problems mentioned before, same symptoms and such. So i uninstalled the drivers, reinstalled, got everything working again and decided that the piece of shit had to go. I copied everything from the USB Maxtor to the USB Western Digital (which i used as a shitty backup but is now my favorite backup) and i’m about to send it back to Maxtor with a lot of cusses written all over it. At least now my goods are safe on the WD. I’m thinking about putting the maxtor under my new Titan and driving over it a few times.
Today i came home from work at Ace Hardware and found my screen saver locked up and the hard drive LED on solid. “What now?” i said. I rebooted and at the XP splash screen a BSOD flashed quickly and the machine rebooted. Safe mode - same thing. W2K - same thing. Recovery Console, XP Setup, 2K setup, your big fat mom - same god damned goat fucking thing. I refuse to low level format the same fucking hard drive twice within a few months. Absolutely ridiculous. This is ricockulous to have 2 drives take a shit in my computer from the same manufacturer. I’m fed up with Maxtor.
I’m going with either WD, Seagate, or Fujitsu from now on - which is cheaper.
Maxtor - FUCK YOU ALL AND YOUR ELECTRONIC ABORTIONS!!! :mad: :mad: