3H500R0 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a IDE interface. 3H500R0 Maxtor QuickView 500 500 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive IDE Ultra ATA/133 (ATA-7) 7200 rpm 16 MB Buffer.
All information about the Maxtor 3H500R0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.
Maxtor 3H500R0 Technical Details:
Maxtor 3H500R0 Hard Drives:
- 3H500R0, Code HA3D1DD0, NGBA, Maxtor 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
- 3H500R0, Code HA3D1DD0, NGBB, Maxtor 500GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive
Maxtor 3H500R0 Failure Symptoms:
- Electrical Failure Symptoms:
Drive is powered, but shows no sign of function;
Disk knocking as the motor fails to spin;
Clicking sound as the heads search or initialize; - Mechanical Failure Symptoms:
Clicking, grinding sounds;
Completely quiet due to ” motor freeze”;
“music” tone as the disk is powered up; - Logical Failure Examples:
Accidental deletion, accidental format, file corruption, software bugs, file system corruption, viruses and malware, and many, many more. - Firmware Failure Symptoms:
drive powers up, but is not recognised by the computer;
Drive powers up, but is recognised wrongly, sometimes with nonsensical characters;
Drive freezes during booting up; - Bad Platter Area Symptoms:
Hard disk still accessible but appear to “hang” or “sluggish”;
Constant Cyclic Redundancy (CRC) errors;
Unable to access folders or files which could be seen; - Complex Failure Model
Maxtor 3H500R0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:
When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 3H500R0 Hard Disk Drive experience is burnt circuit board(PCB). So if you will need to match a replacement PCB, it is important that you note the “Main Controller IC Number” of your current circuit board in addition to the hard drive’s “Model Number“.
Multiple Main Controller IC Number revisions:
040124600, etc.
Multiple Board Number revisions:
302015101, etc.