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teppichkopf

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Utility to crack into USB HDD card config??
« on: October 12, 2007, 05:14:08 PM »
I have a 1TB External Maxtor USB drive. It uses two 500GB sata drives. One of the drives crashed (some great clicking noises though) which in affect has made this a nice big paper weight. I took it apart and isolated the bad drive.

Once put back together it wouldn't work as a 500GB drive. So I pulled both drives and put in matching sata 80GB sata drives to see if it would rebuild itself. (I assume it is using striping rather than extending.) Well it doesn't rebuild so I think the actual card it set to work with 500gb drives.

Is there a program or utility that I can reconfigure the built in driver on this Maxtor drive so I can mount two new drives??
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Deerpark



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    Re: Utility to crack into USB HDD card config??
    « Reply #1 on: October 13, 2007, 01:49:33 PM »
    Could you tell us the product name of that external drive? (Besides Maxtor I mean)
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    Re: Utility to crack into USB HDD card config??
    « Reply #2 on: October 13, 2007, 03:59:12 PM »
    And Maxtor's website would be my first stop...
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    teppichkopf

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    Re: Utility to crack into USB HDD card config??
    « Reply #3 on: October 15, 2007, 09:28:17 AM »
    It has two MaxLine Pro 500gs sata drives. Model 7H500F0. The actual drive was Maxtor OneTouch 1000GB USB2. The drive card isn't well marked and has only a revision number and s/n.
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    Deerpark



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      Re: Utility to crack into USB HDD card config??
      « Reply #4 on: October 15, 2007, 01:11:24 PM »
      We still don't have a lot to go on.
      Maxtor has 4 lines of OneTouch products.
      Maybe you can find the one you have here and the tell us the exact product name.
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      Re: Utility to crack into USB HDD card config??
      « Reply #5 on: October 15, 2007, 05:01:06 PM »
      Maxtor OneTouch III (GH010W)
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