Maxtor ARES 64K 2F020J0 (VAM51JJ0) 'Initialization error'

[DR_Ireland]

Greetings everybody!

HDD is spinning, cannot hear any knocking and detected by PC3000 UDMA as:

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Model: Maxtor ARES C64K
Serial:
Firmware: VAM51JJZ
Capacity: 38.29GB (80 295 529)

It shows following error when trying to start Utility:

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Initialization error
Context: Read roadmap
Content: Device error detected

Is there any chance to get data back from this drive? I don't have the same drive to create a loader. Any suggestions?

Pawel

[ACE_Admin]

sorry, for delayed answer, but what is with this drive at this moment?
did you solve it?

if no, then :

what did this drive show you = in its Service area test?

[DR_Ireland]

Hello

At this point I cannot een get into an Utility, I am getting 'Initialization error' message box with [OK} and it gets back to detection screen.
I was hoping that with good loader I can at least diagnose it somehow.

[DR_Ireland]

Hi all, I got a loader and started the drive on 'Safe Mode', checked SA and it turned out that G-List is damaged. Cleaned it and restarted the drive in normal mode. Data is accessible in Data Extractor.

Greetings all. Pawel

[Towerrat79]

Thank you for posting how you were able to recover the data. I have a similar drive that I just fixed.
Frank