2F030J0 Maxtor 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 30GB and featuring a IDE interface. 2F030J0 Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache IDE/ATA-133 3.5-inch Hard Drive.

All information about the Maxtor 2F030J0 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, free asked questions, reviews, HDD repair and data recovery.

Maxtor 2F030J0 Technical Details:

• Manufacturer: Maxtor
• Manufacturer Website: www.maxtor.seagate.com
• Manufacturer Part No: 2F030J0-310651
• Product Series or Family: Fireball 3
• Product Type: Internal Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity: 30GB
• Spindle Speed: 5400RPM
• Drive Interface: ATA/133
• Form Factor: 3.5Inch
• Cache: 2MB

Maxtor 2F030J0 Hard Drives:

• 2F030J0, Code VAM51JJ0, KFBA, Maxtor 30GB IDE 3.5″ Hard Drive

Maxtor 2F030J0 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 2F030J0 Data Recovery & HDD Repair:

When it comes to data recovery one of the most common problems Maxtor 2F030J0 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:
040111600, etc.

Multiple Board Number revisions:
301525101, etc.