Maxtor Drive issue...

[Colin McGregor]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> A friend of mine from WAY back has just arrive in Toronto with a dead
> Maxtor drive. The drive was in an external USB case, and by mistake he
> connected an 18 volt power supply to the 12 volt connector... I had
> hoped when I spoke to my friend that the only thing damaged would be
> the USB to EIDE adapter, but there is visible damage to one of the
> chips on the drive itself. So as I see his options:
>
> - Find another Maxtor MaXLine II 300GB ATA/133 HD and attempt a drive
> control replacement (can anyone help here?).
> - Turn it over to a professional data recovery firm (any suggestions
> as to who is good / local / reasonably prices).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Colin.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone. My friend is on his way back
home and will be taking the drive in to an Ottawa based data recovery
firm for a quote (Ottawa and Montreal are closer to him than Toronto).
Fingers crossed the Ottawa firm can sort things out for him...

Colin.
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