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<P align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July&nbsp;7, 2005



<P align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-________



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<P align="center" style="font-size: 14pt"><B>UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 18pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>


<P align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
UNDER<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>

<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B>Maxtor Corporation</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">( Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter )</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top">77-0123732</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction<BR>
of incorporation or other organization)
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">500 McCarthy Boulevard<BR>
Milpitas, CA 95035


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Address principal executive offices) (Zip code)</DIV>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">Maxtor Corporation<BR>
2005 Performance Incentive Plan, 1996 Stock Option Plan


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">and 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan</DIV>


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the Plan)</DIV>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">Dr.&nbsp;C.S. Park<BR>
Chairman of the Board and<BR>
Chief Executive Officer<BR>
Maxtor Corporation<BR>
500 McCarthy Boulevard<BR>
Milpitas, CA 95035


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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Name and address of agent for service)</DIV>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (408)&nbsp;894-5000.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with Rule&nbsp;462
promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.



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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE



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    <TD nowrap align="center">Title of Securities</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">Amount to be</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">Proposed</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">Proposed</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">Amount of</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center">to be registered<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">1</sup></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">registered<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">2</sup></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">maximum</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">maximum</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">offering</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">aggregate</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">fee</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">price per</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">offering
price<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">3</SUP></TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" colspan="2">share<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">3</SUP></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5" align="left">2005 Performance Incentive Plan</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right">11,000,000</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">5.23</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">57,530,000.00</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">6,771.28</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Par Value $0.01</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5" align="left">1996 Stock Option Plan</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right">631,376</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">5.23</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">3,302,096.48</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">388.66</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Par Value $0.01</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5" align="left">1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Common Stock</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right">197,842</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">5.23</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">1,034,713.66</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">121.79</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Par Value $0.01</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">TOTAL</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right">11,829,218</TD>
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    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">61,866,810.14</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left">$</TD>
    <TD align="right">7,281.73</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">1</SUP></TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="96%">The securities to be registered include options
and purchase rights, as the case may be, to acquire Common Stock.</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">2</SUP></TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="96%">Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), this registration
statement also</TD>
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    <TD width="96%" colspan="3"> covers any additional securities that may be offered or issued
in connection with any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction.</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left"><SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">3</SUP></TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="96%">The offering price is estimated pursuant to Rule
457(h) solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee. The price is
based</TD>
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    <TD width="96%" colspan="3">upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on July
1, 2005 as reported on the New York Stock Exchange.</TD>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000">PART II</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#001">Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002">Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities</A></TD></TR>
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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#008">SIGNATURE</A></TD></TR>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">PART II



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</U>


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;3</U>. <U>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</U>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Maxtor Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;) hereby incorporates by reference in this registration
statement the following documents:


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The Company&#146;s latest annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;), containing audited
financial statements for the Company&#146;s latest fiscal year ended December&nbsp;25, 2004, as filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on March&nbsp;10, 2005.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the
end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant document referred to in (a)&nbsp;above.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;The description of the Company&#146;s Common Stock contained in the Company&#146;s Registration
Statement on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section&nbsp;12 of the Exchange Act.

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Inapplicable.

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;102(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation to provide in
its Certificate of Incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
to a corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the
director&#146;s &#147;duty of care.&#148; While this statute does not change the directors&#146; duty of care, it
enables corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as injunction or
rescission. The statute has no effect on a director&#146;s duty of loyalty or liability for acts or
omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law,
illegal payment of dividends or stock redemptions or repurchases, or for any transaction from which
the director derives an improper personal benefit. As permitted by the statute, the Company has
adopted provisions in its Restated Certificate of Incorporation which eliminate to the fullest
extent permissible under Delaware law the personal liability of its directors to the


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Company and its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their duty
of care.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents of a corporation. The Amended and
Restated Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees
and agents to the full extent permitted by Delaware law, including those circumstances in which
indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. The Company&#146;s Amended and
Restated Bylaws also empower it to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and
officers and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or permitted to
indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and certain of its executive
officers that require the Company to indemnify such persons to the fullest extent permitted under
Delaware law against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and
reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding,
whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact
that such person is or was a director or an executive officer of the Company or any of its
affiliated enterprises. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will
apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for
indemnification in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act.

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;7</U>. <U>Exemption From Registration Claimed</U>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Inapplicable.

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;8</U>. <U>Exhibits</U>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See Exhibit&nbsp;Index.

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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>Item&nbsp;9</U>. <U>Undertakings</U>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)&nbsp;To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
amendment to this registration statement:


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)&nbsp;To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii)&nbsp;To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the
registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which,



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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
the registration statement;



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii)&nbsp;To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in
the registration statement;



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>provided, however</U>, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(l)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form&nbsp;S-3 or Form&nbsp;S-8, and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
registrant pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section&nbsp;15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in the registration statement.



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a)
or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating
to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted
to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>SIGNATURE</U>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Milpitas, State of California, on July&nbsp;7, 2005.


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    <TD width="48%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="6%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">Maxtor Corporation<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ C.S. Park
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Dr. C.S. Park&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Chairman of the Board<BR>
and Chief Executive Officer&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>POWER OF ATTORNEY</U>




<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The officers and directors of Maxtor Corporation whose signatures appear below, hereby
constitute and appoint Dr.&nbsp;C.S. Park and William O. Sweeney, and each of them, their true and
lawful attorneys and agents, with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign
and execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this registration statement
on Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that each of said
attorney and agent, or their or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by
the following persons in the capacities indicated on July&nbsp;7, 2005.

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    <TD width="45%">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">Signature</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="left">Title</TD>
</TR>

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    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ C.S. Park</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Dr. C.S. Park
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Executive Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Duston M. Williams</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Duston M. Williams
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Nancy Bush</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Nancy Bush
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice President, Corporate Controller</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">(Principal Accounting Officer)</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Richard E. Allen</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Richard E. Allen
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Charles M. Boesenberg</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Charles M. Boesenberg
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Michael R. Cannon</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Michael R. Cannon
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Charles F. Christ</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Charles F. Christ
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Charles Hill</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Charles Hill
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Gregory E. Myers</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD colspan="1" valign="top" align="left" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Gregory E. Myers
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
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    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">4.1</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is incorporated by
reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Company&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-4
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December&nbsp;11, 2000 (File
No.&nbsp;333-51592).</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">4.2</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Certificate of Correction to the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation is incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 to the Company&#146;s
Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
March&nbsp;2, 2001.</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">4.3</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Amended and Restated Bylaws dated February&nbsp;18, 2005 of the Company are
incorporated by reference to Exhibit&nbsp;99.2 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on
Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February&nbsp;25,
2005.</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">5</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Opinion of Legality</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">23.1</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5)</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">23.2</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm</TD>
</TR>

<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="top" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background: transparent">
    <TD width="4%" nowrap align="left">24</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration
statement)</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 7, 2005
Registration No. 333-________
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Maxtor Corporation
( Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter )
Delaware
77-0123732
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or other organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
500 McCarthy Boulevard
Milpitas, CA 95035
(Address principal executive offices) (Zip code)
Maxtor Corporation
2005 Performance Incentive Plan, 1996 Stock Option Plan
and 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
(Full title of the Plan)
Dr. C.S. Park
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Maxtor Corporation
500 McCarthy Boulevard
Milpitas, CA 95035
(Name and address of agent for service)
Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (408) 894-5000.
This registration statement shall hereafter become effective in accordance with Rule 462
promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities
Amount to be
Proposed
Proposed
Amount of
to be registered
1
registered
2
maximum
maximum
registration
offering
aggregate
fee
price per
offering
price
3
share
3
2005 Performance Incentive Plan
Common Stock
11,000,000
$
5.23
$
57,530,000.00
$
6,771.28
Par Value $0.01
1996 Stock Option Plan
Common Stock
631,376
$
5.23
$
3,302,096.48
$
388.66
Par Value $0.01
1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Common Stock
197,842
$
5.23
$
1,034,713.66
$
121.79
Par Value $0.01
TOTAL
11,829,218
$
61,866,810.14
$
7,281.73
1
The securities to be registered include options
and purchase rights, as the case may be, to acquire Common Stock.
2
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this registration
statement also
covers any additional securities that may be offered or issued
in connection with any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction.
3
The offering price is estimated pursuant to Rule
457(h) solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee. The price is
based
upon the average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on July
1, 2005 as reported on the New York Stock Exchange.
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PART II
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Item 4. Description of Securities
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Item 7. Exemption From Registration Claimed
Item 8. Exhibits
Item 9. Undertakings
SIGNATURE
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT 5
EXHIBIT 23.2
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3
.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
Maxtor Corporation (the "Company") hereby incorporates by reference in this registration
statement the following documents:
(a) The Company's latest annual report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), containing audited
financial statements for the Company's latest fiscal year ended December 25, 2004, as filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10, 2005.
(b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the
end of the fiscal year covered by the registrant document referred to in (a) above.
(c) The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the Company's Registration
Statement on Form 8-A filed under the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.
All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and
15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this registration
statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
registration statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Item 4
.
Description of Securities
The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act.
Item 5
.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
Inapplicable.
Item 6
.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
Section 102(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a corporation to provide in
its Certificate of Incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable
to a corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the
director's "duty of care." While this statute does not change the directors' duty of care, it
enables corporations to limit available relief to equitable remedies such as injunction or
rescission. The statute has no effect on a director's duty of loyalty or liability for acts or
omissions not in good faith or involving intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law,
illegal payment of dividends or stock redemptions or repurchases, or for any transaction from which
the director derives an improper personal benefit. As permitted by the statute, the Company has
adopted provisions in its Restated Certificate of Incorporation which eliminate to the fullest
extent permissible under Delaware law the personal liability of its directors to the
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Company and its stockholders for monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of their duty
of care.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for the
indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents of a corporation. The Amended and
Restated Bylaws of the Company provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees
and agents to the full extent permitted by Delaware law, including those circumstances in which
indemnification would otherwise be discretionary under Delaware law. The Company's Amended and
Restated Bylaws also empower it to enter into indemnification agreements with its directors and
officers and to purchase insurance on behalf of any person whom it is required or permitted to
indemnify. The Company has entered into agreements with its directors and certain of its executive
officers that require the Company to indemnify such persons to the fullest extent permitted under
Delaware law against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and
reasonably incurred (including expenses of a derivative action) in connection with any proceeding,
whether actual or threatened, to which any such person may be made a party by reason of the fact
that such person is or was a director or an executive officer of the Company or any of its
affiliated enterprises. The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will
apply in the event of a claim for indemnification thereunder.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides for
indemnification in terms sufficiently broad to indemnify such individuals, under certain
circumstances, for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the
Securities Act.
Item 7
.
Exemption From Registration Claimed
Inapplicable.
Item 8
.
Exhibits
See Exhibit Index.
Item 9
.
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the
registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which,
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individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
the registration statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in
the registration statement;
provided, however
, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(l)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the
registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in the registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a)
or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating
to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed
to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted
to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it
has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Milpitas, State of California, on July 7, 2005.
Maxtor Corporation
By:
/s/ C.S. Park
Dr. C.S. Park
Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
The officers and directors of Maxtor Corporation whose signatures appear below, hereby
constitute and appoint Dr. C.S. Park and William O. Sweeney, and each of them, their true and
lawful attorneys and agents, with full power of substitution, each with power to act alone, to sign
and execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this registration statement
on Form S-8, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that each of said
attorney and agent, or their or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by
the following persons in the capacities indicated on July 7, 2005.
Signature
Title
/s/ C.S. Park
Dr. C.S. Park
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Duston M. Williams
Duston M. Williams
Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief
Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Nancy Bush
Nancy Bush
Vice President, Corporate Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Richard E. Allen
Richard E. Allen
Director
/s/ Charles M. Boesenberg
Charles M. Boesenberg
Director
/s/ Michael R. Cannon
Michael R. Cannon
Director
/s/ Charles F. Christ
Charles F. Christ
Director
/s/ Charles Hill
Charles Hill
Director
/s/ Gregory E. Myers
Gregory E. Myers
Director
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EXHIBIT INDEX
4.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 11, 2000 (File
No. 333-51592).
4.2
Certificate of Correction to the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's
Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
March 2, 2001.
4.3
Amended and Restated Bylaws dated February 18, 2005 of the Company are
incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Company's Current Report on
Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25,
2005.
5
Opinion of Legality
23.1
Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
24
Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this registration
statement)