Data Recovery:

All Maxtor Hard Drive Recovery is Recession price only £275+vat (excludes vat at 20%). We have permanently reduced all our data recovery products until the recession ends. We are currently the cheapest in the UK and offer this service on a 'No Fix No Fee' basis. We successfully recovery 99% of all hard drives we receive and in many cases, return it the recovered data within 48/72 hours! No Fix No Fee means if we cannot recover your data then you pay nothing.

Your Maxtor Drive will produce error messages as below:

Primary Hard Disk not found
CRC errors when you attempt to copy files
Invalid or corrupt FAT
Invalid partition table entries
System Virus attack
LED on external hard drive flashing
Cannot find file or program
Primary/Secondary Hard disk failure
Windows or Mac corrupt directory listing
Hard drive is making clicking or ticking noises
LED on external hard drive flashing
Hard drive beeps repeatly
Hard drive is quiet, probably means motor is not spinning
Master Boot Record Not Found
Non system disk or disk errors

Follow the steps below to send in your hard drive to us:

Step 1

Send us your Hard Drive to our postal address; details are below and on our contact page. Send the Hard Drive via a suitable postage service along with your Contact Details (Full Name, Full Postal Address, Phone Number & Email Address). We recommend Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery. The average costs are £4.50 via this delivery method and the contents are fully insured up to a value of £500.

Our Address:

Advanced Data Recovery
88 Kingsway,
Holborn,
London,
WC2B 6AA

Step 2

Our Diagnosis will confirm the level of data recovery that we can attain from your Hard Drive, we will contact you ASAP to determine what data you want recovered.

Step 3

We will recover the data you want and copy the contents onto a suitable media.

Step 4

We send the recovered data back to you via a Next Day Courier Service. Our aim to send the recovered data back to you within 48/72 hours.

Maxtor Data Recovery Information:

Maxtor have been manufacturing hard drives for the PC and Server-Business market since 1990. They have one of the best reputations for reliability in the hard disk market. The Maxtor Diamond Max series is still regarded among the best quality hard drives around, this was reason enough as to why Maxtor was the world's third largest manufacturer of computer hard disks right up to it's acquisition by Seagate in May 2006. One of the most common Maxtor issues is factory firmware problems. Factory Firmware is stored on the disk platters in the so-called System (Service) Area of the Maxtor hard disk. If one or more than one of the disk modules becomes corrupted the whole Maxtor hard disk cannot boot up. If your Maxtor hard drive cannot boot up and is getting identified by its factory alias, for example instead of Maxtor model name, it displays for example "MAXTOR N40P" on the DiamondMax Plus 8, "MAXTOR CALYPSO" III on the DiamondMax Plus 9, "MAXTOR FALCON" on the DiamondMax 10 series. If you have this problem we have a data recovery solution for you!

Currently there is no way to fix this type of firmware corruption at home. It is quite a complicated procedure and requires use of specialised expensive equipment and deep knowledge of hard drive design and data recovery technology.

Maxtor drives are also well-known for their line of "musical" hard disks that have a very high rate of bearing (motor) failure. When this occurs the spindle gets stuck and motor voice coil starts producing a mobile phone type melody. Maxtor Data recovery in such case involves removing platters from such musical drive in class 100 clean room environment and transplanting them into matching donor Maxtor Hard Drive. This is a very complex and precise procedure and requires a lot of Data Recovery experience and use of specialised in-house tools to maintain multi platter hard disks in alignment.

An electronic fault develops can also occur on the Maxtor controller board. This is normally caused by overheating, power surges or problems with the spindle motor. When this occurs, the drive will appear to have failed completely and not be shown in the BIOS at all.

The Maxtor drive can spin up and the head starts clicking right from the beginning with a regular clicking sound . More times than not this a sign of bad heads, if this is the case it is very important to perform accurate diagnostics and eliminate a chance of possible firmware corruption or PCB failure that sometimes could also cause clicking.

The last typical Maxtor hard drive issue applies also to all other hard drive makes and models, the problem is called bad sectors. After some period of time the platters were the data is located starts to degrade and bad sectors appear.
Whenever the hard drive attempts to read bad sectors it could start freezing, scratching, ticking and sometimes loud clicking. This leads to further damage to the surface and causes more data loss. As soon as you start experiencing such symptoms while reading important files, stop the drive immediately and consider sending it to a data recovery company like ourselves for a free diagnostic. Any further attempts to read the Maxtor drive would just add up to the problems and make more data unrecoverable. In our Data Recovery Lab we use expensive imaging tools that are capable of force reading bad sectors from Maxtor Hard Disks. This is usually the only way to effectively retrieve data from these Drives.

We are here to help, during working hours we respond to emails within 5 minutes. Out of hours is usually on the hour. Business hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm GMT.

support@advanceddatarecovery.co.uk

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