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Bios does not recognize hard drive - Hard drive appears as 'Rigel' rather than as Maxtor 5T060H6. Apparently some hacker got to it. Any way to re-program it?
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Originally Posted by dgcs 
Bios does not recognize hard drive - Hard drive appears as 'Rigel' rather than as Maxtor 5T060H6. Apparently some hacker got to it. Any way to re-program it?
if it your main drive and had windows loaded onto it ,try formatting and reinstalling window to it
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Originally Posted by dgcs
Bios does not recognize hard drive - Hard drive appears as 'Rigel' rather than as Maxtor 5T060H6. Apparently some hacker got to it. Any way to re-program it?
Good Luck.
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On other thing try checking your MOBO updates of the BIOS. The firmware on the MOBO (MOtherBOard) may need updating.
Just I always check everything.
Just I always check everything.
OK - guess I need to be more explicit. When installed as the only drive, bios boot screen shows primary drive as 'Rigel', not as 'Maxtor 5T060H6'. Bios set up says 'no drive found'. If I manually set up drive with sectors/heads etc info off the drive, it is still not recognized by bios at startup. / What I believe happened is some hacker or malware found its way onto the drive and overwrote the eprom built into the drive. Else why would it think it was 'Rigel' instead of 'Maxtor 5T060H6'. I don't know how or if this was done, but that is what it appears happened. / BTW Maxtor install software also identifies the drive as 'Rigel' & doesn't install, reformat or anything except say 'no drive connected'. / So I'm wondering if anyone else ever encountered this problem, and if there is some low level drive software that can reprogram the eprom (or whatever - I understand it may be a low level program on the drive that was overwritten. I have some old dos programs for low level formatting of hd, but suspect there is something more up to date that _might_ restore the drive to functionality. Any suggestions welcome.
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i have never seen it before ,maxtors maxblast does low leve format ,but if the mxtor software you tried didn't see the drive then you may be just dealing with a dead drive ,and nothing is going to see it!
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...00dd04090aRCRD
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...00dd04090aRCRD
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http://clusty.com/search?query=maxto...Mozilla-search
Lots of interesting reading.
http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/bios-cod...-hard-disk.htm
http://www.phuket-data-wizards.com/e...r-failures.php
http://www.xytron.co.uk/maxtor-hard-drives.html
http://www.vitaldata.ca/maxtor-data-recovery.html
Seems more mundane than malicious.
Lots of interesting reading.
http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/bios-cod...-hard-disk.htm
http://www.phuket-data-wizards.com/e...r-failures.php
http://www.xytron.co.uk/maxtor-hard-drives.html
http://www.vitaldata.ca/maxtor-data-recovery.html
Seems more mundane than malicious.
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Originally Posted by Salem
http://clusty.com/search?query=maxto...Mozilla-search
Lots of interesting reading.
http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/bios-cod...-hard-disk.htm
http://www.phuket-data-wizards.com/e...r-failures.php
http://www.xytron.co.uk/maxtor-hard-drives.html
http://www.vitaldata.ca/maxtor-data-recovery.html
Seems more mundane than malicious.
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Originally Posted by dgcs
OK - guess I need to be more explicit. When installed as the only drive, bios boot screen shows primary drive as 'Rigel', not as 'Maxtor 5T060H6'. Bios set up says 'no drive found'. If I manually set up drive with sectors/heads etc info off the drive, it is still not recognized by bios at startup. / What I believe happened is some hacker or malware found its way onto the drive and overwrote the eprom built into the drive. Else why would it think it was 'Rigel' instead of 'Maxtor 5T060H6'. I don't know how or if this was done, but that is what it appears happened. / BTW Maxtor install software also identifies the drive as 'Rigel' & doesn't install, reformat or anything except say 'no drive connected'. / So I'm wondering if anyone else ever encountered this problem, and if there is some low level drive software that can reprogram the eprom (or whatever - I understand it may be a low level program on the drive that was overwritten. I have some old dos programs for low level formatting of hd, but suspect there is something more up to date that _might_ restore the drive to functionality. Any suggestions welcome.
I have never heard of a software on a new drive to format it. That would be silly because after the first try your software would be gone. BAH! wrong answer.
Get a WINDOWS BOOT DISK of the same operating system ie. Windows XP and try to copy from someone's machine the fdisk program. Let me know.
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fdisk will not do ,the drive is dead ,not readable anymore!read the links in Salem's post
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