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Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Anyone know what exactly Maxtor's "MaxBlast" does, and if there's any reason to use it instead of an OS's own formatting software?
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Maxblast creates an extended partition that includes code to make primary partition and extended partition appear to computer as same. That is the easy part. The hard part is why MaxBlast software is so difficult to remove. If not removed by the correct type of MaxBlast, then sometimes a Maxtor drive appears to be broken. Eventually the drive can be recovered. But even some of the Maxtor software crashes trying to remove the MaxBlast.
Maxtor diagnostic software appears to be less reliable than it once was. Once had to download an older copy from Russia (of all places) in order to solve what appeared to be a defective Maxtor drive (because I did not use MaxBlast to remove the MaxBlast software).
The long version of why it is better to not use those BIOS extension softwares - if you can avoid them.
Have had two Maxtor drives eventually fail. Both failures were due to transistor failure - not due to drive mechanical failure.