<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I dont know about Maxtor's reputation. I have never had a single problem with any other brand disk except Maxtor. I stick with WD and SG for important things and Maxtor for bulk storage because they are so cheap. Just my thoughts (stay away from Maxtor). Matt Tim Vaughan wrote: <blockquote cite="mid91321cfc0510121120i4468a10dm9d7dc32b42df9bb@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I've had really good luck with dd_rescue. As long as the drive's spinning, it'll try to chew data off it. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks everyone for the advice - unfortunately, freezing it didn't work and the drive refused to spin up. Since opening the case up would have voided the warranty I just RMA-ed it. Maxtor's reputation is pretty good so hopefully the replacement will be more reliable. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>