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- Maxtor Deploys Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect and Control Its Web Infrastructure
- Maxtor Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives. The company needed a more efficient and effective strategy to keep spyware and viruses from entering its networks and prevent users from accessing inappropriate Web content, reduce helpdesk requirements, and improve network performance. Maxtor deployed Blue Coat...
- Tags: Maxtor Corp., Web Infrastructure, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Help Desk, Cyberthreats, Call Centers, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, It Operations
- Case studies
- Maxtor hard drive dominos
- IT departments traditionally dispose of outdated or damaged computer equipment through employee sales, charitable donations or trips to the local dump. Some however, go beyond these normal methods transforming dead computer hardware into works of art, clocks, and even garden fixtures. The following TechRepublic galleries show decommissioned...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Maxtor Corp., Computer, Productivity, Bill Detwiler
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Maxtor Firmware Repair Floppy Version (rar)
- A freeware of Salvation HDD Lab aiming at solution for typical firmware malfunction of Maxtor 541DX (2B020H1 2B010H1), which may manifest itself as follows: HDD is not identified or identified by its factory alias "Maxtor Athena"; HDD starts the motor and then hangs. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Maxtor Corp., Firmware, SalvationDATA Technology
- Software downloads 2007-10-30
- Witness the death click of a Maxtor hard drive
- TechRepublic member Wally Bahny shares with us the tragic death of a Maxtor hard drive. In the video you can clearly hear the tell-tale sound often called the click-of-death. I don't think this hard drive is coming back from the dead.
- Tags: Maxtor Corp., hard drive, maxtor, Death, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-12-20
- Seagate offers warning about infected hard drives shipping with Trojans
- MAXTOR IS SEAGATE---HOW ABOUT THATHow does a virus get into a hard drive?The drive is shipped with nothing recorded on it.The first thing that you do is to record the OS or a partition to the drive.Wouldn't that erase the virus?Could there be a portion of the drive that is...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, BALTHOR, trojan horse, BIOS, hard drive, virus, Maxtor Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, firmware
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- USB External Drive
- Hi I have a 300 Gb Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 which up until recently has been working well with my Acer Travelmate 370 laptop to store large files and backups. Recently the laptop had some issues with the Windows XP version of the screaming blue screen of death owing I...
- Tags: Notebooks, USB, bliim, Maxtor Corp., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-11-11
- Maxtor 3100 problem with Vista Home
- Hi,I am working on a issue on a client machine that is running Vista Home Edition and when I plug in the external HD a message comes up saying that the device is not recognized. I uninstalled the USB drivers and then replug it back it and usually it fixes...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), wang63085@..., Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Home, Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Printer Compability with Maxtor Shared Storage Drive
- Hi,I try to connect my hp photosmart 7100 series with my Maxtor Shared Storage Drive SSD. When running the configuration software it appears as a printing device in the system status window. But if I want to connect/install it it doesn't appear in the in \SSDprinters and fax.Is it possible...
- Tags: Printers, storage, hartmut.vogt@..., Maxtor Shared Storage, Maxtor Corp., printer
- Discussion threads 2007-11-03
- Hard Disk Replacement for Maxtor Shared Storage Drive
- Bought a Maxtor Share Storage Plus Drive (200Gb) about 16 months ago (you guessed it 12 month warranty) and I suspect the hard drive has now failed. When you press the power switch the unit starts the fan for a few seconds before switching off.Has anybody out there had a...
- Tags: pimayo@..., hard drive, Maxtor Corp., storage
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Maxtor Onetouch III not working with Vista
- I recently purchased a new computer with Vista installed. I have installed my Maxtor III Onetouch but the backup function does not operate. When I press the button, nothing happens. When I initiate the backup via the user interface nothing happens. Any ideas out there?
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Backups, pmnos@..., Maxtor Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- Recover files from Maxtor Mini lll
- When I plugged my hard drive the computer slows down and it takes a long time to read it. When I try to go in the drive it gives this error message "The system cannot find the device specified". I check the Device Manager and Disk Management and the drive...
- Tags: rodriguez583@..., Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- Maxtor One Touch III Mini 160 GB showing only 4.5 GB space
- I just purchased the above maxtor external drive; despite the software not working with Vista I intend to use the Windows backup function. My problem is the drive appears to have only 4.5 GB of space on it, not 160. It is recognized by my computer as 2 drives, F...
- Tags: larktim@..., Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Download free hard disk imaging utilities for Windows XP
- Windows Vista's hard disk imaging utility, Complete PC Backup, allows users you to create an image file that contains the complete contents and structure of a hard disk. If you want this capability in Windows XP, you don't have to pay for a third-party utility, such as Acronis True Image....
- Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows XP, Maxtor Corp., Imaging, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Seagate Technology LLC, Greg Shultz
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Maxtor One Touch III
- I recently bought a 160GB Maxtor One Touch III because I wanted what was inside. I removed the 2 Phillips screws. How do I remove the drive from the case?Thanks.Harold
- Tags: HaroldTotten@..., Maxtor One-Touch, Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Maxtor internal as external vista problems..
- EDIT: Well after messing with it, it seems the jumper needed to be on cable select for it to work in the external case. Not on master or master/slave.But cable select did not work internally, just so people know.--------------I have a IDE internal maxtor 80gig HDD that I want to...
- Tags: Cable, DVD, Consumer electronics, frogcooke@..., Microsoft Windows, Well Ive, external case, Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Maxtor II External Hard Drive and MS Vista
- MS Vista Home Professional Version will not recognize a Maxtor II One Touch External Hard Drive even with the Maxtor set up CD. How do I configure Vista to recognize the hard drive so the hard drive files can be accessed? Thank you for your help.John
- Tags: folvarcik@..., Maxtor Corp., hard drive, MS Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- Getting NTLDR Error Now After installing XP and SP2 on Maxtor SATA/300
- Well, I thought I sloved the issue with the SATA drive and using it as a MAIN drives, but it failed. Last night I was able to boot Windows After cleaning the baby finger prints off of disk and I update XP to the max. Installed all my games, drivers,...
- Tags: Serial ATA, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, PRODUCTIVITY, bhalton@..., Maxtor Corp., NTLDR Error, Microsoft Windows, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Installing a New Maxtor Sata/300 on a OEM ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe Mobo
- Hello all! I'm really at a dead end here so please bare with me.Ok Saturday morning when I turned on my PC everything was running fine. 30 Minutes later my PC flashed a Blue Screen, and then crashed. When I tried to reboot it keep repeating this cycle. It will...
- Tags: bhalton@..., Maxtor Corp., ASUS, Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, OEM, IDE, BIOS, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-08-11
- Maxtor One Touch II
- I noticed several postings re: Maxtor One Touch II. I used this HD some time ago. Often, I had problems. Eventually my problems led to corrupt files, etc.I have since dumped the Maxtor drive. I lost too much data & even tho I was able to...
- Tags: jks0614@..., Maxtor Corp., Maxtor One-Touch II, Maxtor One-Touch
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Viewing and accessing systems in a Workgroup
- I don't even know where to begin. I have a user with a computer that was part of a workgroup called Workgroup. She stated that she was able to see other systems in the workgroup and that they could see the system she is on. We'll...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, sinjjin@..., computer, computer1, software, Maxtor Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
