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Parasietje
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 Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject: Asking for a favor |
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Recently, a maxtor drive failed again (3rd one this year). I want to run the maxtor diagnostics tool, but last month, I removed windows from my system. Unfortunately, the Maxtor tool can only be written to a floppy disk from Windows.
Can anyone do me and other people a favor:
write a Maxtor Diagnostics disk and make an image from it. That way, I can use 'dd' to create the disk, instead of going through the hastle of installing an illegal Windows just for this maxtor floppy... |
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azlan
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Ya, but your basically asking someone to make an illegal copy of the maxtor image...
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u kidding?
it wouldn't be illegal...
but you firs gotta find someone with windoze....
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I've got a Windows system -- a notebook -- but it doesn't have a floppy drive. If there's a Maxtor program I can download to create a CD that would help you, I could put an image of the CD online for you...
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srlinuxx
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I've got a windows partition and a couple of those maxtor floppies, what do you want someone to do again? copy all the files off it and then do what with em?
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rezza
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| srlinuxx wrote: | | I've got a windows partition and a couple of those maxtor floppies, what do you want someone to do again? copy all the files off it and then do what with em? |
Not copy the files off - he wants a direct image rip. Use dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/maxtor_floppy.img, man dd for more info.
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Parasietje
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| azlan wrote: | | Ya, but your basically asking someone to make an illegal copy of the maxtor image... |
So you are saying that it's illegal for me to use the maxtor program on my drives? It's illegal to get an error code for a drive that shouldn't die on me in the first place.
I would say it's a disgrace maxtor only accepts RMA orders for drives that have been checked with a windows-only utility. I have a right to use this utility: I bought a maxtor drive. Now someone can't use drive checking utilities anymore because they don't have a valid windows license?
@ rezza: that's indeed what I wanted. Personally, I don't need it anymore. I asked a friend at school to make me a floppy. But still, I think it would be helpful towards the community to post such an image online. |
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nephros
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| Parasietje wrote: | | But still, I think it would be helpful towards the community to post such an image online. |
You mean like the bootable CD ISO image Maxtor offers for download on their webpage?
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pjp
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Also, there are non-Microsoft DOS alternatives.
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srlinuxx
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I'm running the dadblamed thing on one of mine right now, when it's done, I'll dd it off and post it on my ftp server for ya.
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srlinuxx
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If you still need it, it's here. you may need to right click and save as.
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Parasietje
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| pjp wrote: | | Also, there are non-Microsoft DOS alternatives. |
Thanks a lot, pjp! I never noticed the tool on their site. Also, thank you srlinuxx, I'll save the image on my hard drive when I need it a second time. |
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