These problems include, but are not limited to the following: Maxtor recommends the use of this utility for troubleshooting potential hard drive problems. The POWERMAX.EXE utility is effective on all ATA (IDE) hard drives with a capacity greater than or equal to 500 MB. These tests will determine hard drive integrity. Maxtor PowerMax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor/Quantum hard drives. Choose External or Internal on the left side according to your productģ.Download (Here also you can get for windows or for CD) On the Step 3 page, when you mouse over on each image it will show the product numbers under each one, find your product Number and chose that.Ģ. Expand the Disc Drive (Click the + sign)į. Right click on My Computer, Click Propertiesĭ. Use the DOS version if you fail with windows version.Ī. Like SeaTools for Seagate, for Western Digital, it is Data Lifeguard Tools. If you install the application for windows and fail the tests, please download the SeaTools for DOS, Write to a CD or a floppy boot from that and then have a “Long Test”, which will fix Issues. Which is having a number of tests and fixes. If you are using Seagate's Hard disk you can use, Seagate’s seatools.

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