Black Friday Watch: Maxtor OneTouch 4 500GB, $79.98
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Bought it in June and in Aug. < 2 months it has faIed. Online and phone tech say no help.
They can recover the data for a starting price of $700. Seems to me since they lost they data they should recover it.
Maxtor is off my list. Maybe Seagate since they own Maxtor now.