Registration No.

                  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        (I.R.S.employer
of incorporation or organization)   identification no.)


                     211 River Oaks Parkway
                    San Jose, California 95134
          ---------------------------------------------------
          (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

                          MAXTOR CORPORATION
                   INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
                   ---------------------------------
                      (Full title of the plan)

                           Glenn H. Stevens
                   Vice President and General Counsel
                          MAXTOR CORPORATION
                        211 River Oaks Parkway
                      San Jose, California 95134
                ---------------------------------------
                (Name and address of agent for service)

Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:  (408)
432-1700

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



                                   Proposed   Proposed
 Title of                          maximum   maximum
securities          Amount        offering   aggregate    Amount of
   to be             to be        price per   offering  registration
registered        registered      share (1)   price (1)     fee (1)
- --------------------------------------------------------------------

Common Stock        15,000        $3.375     $50,625.00    $100.00
  ($0.01 par        shares
   value)





- --------------------------------------------------------------------
(1)   Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely for purposes of
calculating the registration fee.  The price is computed on the
basis of the exercise price set forth in the option agreement.




                                  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 Section 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.

   (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
annual report referred to in (a) above.

   (c)   The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in
the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-B, filed pursuant to
Section 12 of the Exchange Act, as filed with the Commission on
December 23, 1986, including any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.

   (d)   The description of the Company's Common Stock Purchase
Rights contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A
as filed with the Commission on February 16, 1988.

   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
- -------  --------------------------------------

   Legal Opinion.  The validity of the shares of Common Stock to be
offered hereunder has been passed upon for the Company by Gray Cary
Ware & Freidenrich, A Professional Corporation.  Gregory M. Gallo,
an attorney and a member with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, A
Professional Corporation, and its predecessor since 1973, has been a
director of the Company since December 1987.  As of November 8,
1994, attorneys of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, a Professional
Corporation, owned 63,500 shares (including shares subject to
options) of the common stock of the Company.


Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers
- -------  -----------------------------------------

   Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal
liability of directors to corporations and their stockholders for
monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the directors'
fiduciary "duty of care."  While the relevant statute does not
change 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 directors' duty of
loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or involving
intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment
of dividends or approval of any transaction from which a director
derives an improper personal benefit.

   The Certificate of Incorporation and the By-Laws of the Company
provide for mandatory indemnification of its officers, directors and
key employees to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.  The Company also
has entered into indemnification agreements with its officers and
directors which provide, among other things, mandatory
indemnification of such individuals in situations in which
indemnification is only permissive under Section 145.  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
of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").


Item 7.  Exemption From Registration Claimed
- -------  -----------------------------------

   Inapplicable.


Item 8.  Exhibits
- -------  --------
See Exhibit Index.


Item 9.  Undertakings
- -------  ------------
   (a)   Rule 415 Offering

   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,
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)(1)(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.

   (b)   Filing incorporating subsequent Exchange Act documents by
reference

     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.

   (h)   Request for acceleration of effective date or filing of
registration statement on Form S-8

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arises 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.



                           SIGNATURES


   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, 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
Longmont, State of Colorado, on November 8, 1994.

                                 MAXTOR CORPORATION



                                 By:  /s/ G. H. Stevens
                                     --------------------
                                 Glenn H. Stevens
                                 Vice President and General Counsel



                           POWER OF ATTORNEY


   The officers and directors of Maxtor Corporation whose signatures
appear below hereby constitute and appoint J. Larry Smart and Glenn
H. Stevens, 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 and his substitutes, shall
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the
following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Signature               Title                               Date


/s/ J. Larry Smart     President, Chief Executive Officer   11/8/94
- ------------------     and Director (Principal Executive    --------
J. Larry Smart         Officer)


/s/ Walter D. Amaral   Vice President, Finance and Chief    11/8/94
- --------------------   Financial Officer (Principal         --------
Walter D. Amaral       Financial Officer)


/s/ R. Balanson        Executive Vice President, Chief      11/8/94
- ---------------        Technical Officer and Director       -------
Richard Balanson


/s/ M. H. Chung        Chairman of the Board                11/8/94
- ---------------                                             -------
M. H. Chung


/s/ Gregory M. Gallo   Director                             11/8/94
- --------------------                                        -------
Gregory M. Gallo


                       Director
- --------------------                                        -------
Charles Hill


/s/ I. B. Jeon         Director                             11/8/94
- --------------                                              -------
I. B. Jeon


/s/ C. S. Park         Director                             11/8/94
- --------------                                              -------
C. S. Park


/s/ Ryal R. Poppa      Director                             11/8/94
- -----------------                                           -------
Ryal R. Poppa



                              EXHIBIT INDEX



4.1   Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is
      incorporated by reference to the exhibits to the Company's
      quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed February 8, 1994


4.2   Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company are incorporated
      by reference to the exhibits to the Company's quarterly report
      on Form 10-Q filed February 8, 1994


4.3   Stockholders' Rights Agreement is incorporated by reference to
      the exhibits to the Company's current report on Form 8-K
      (No. 0-14016) effective February 8, 1988

5     Opinion regarding legality


23.1  Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)


23.2  Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors


24    Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this
      registration statement)
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Registration No.

                  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        (I.R.S.employer
of incorporation or organization)   identification no.)

                     211 River Oaks Parkway
                    San Jose, California 95134
          ---------------------------------------------------
          (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

                          MAXTOR CORPORATION
                   INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
                   ---------------------------------
                      (Full title of the plan)

                           Glenn H. Stevens
                   Vice President and General Counsel
                          MAXTOR CORPORATION
                        211 River Oaks Parkway
                      San Jose, California 95134
                ---------------------------------------
                (Name and address of agent for service)

Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:  (408)
432-1700

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

                                   Proposed   Proposed
 Title of                          maximum   maximum
securities          Amount        offering   aggregate    Amount of
   to be             to be        price per   offering  registration
registered        registered      share (1)   price (1)     fee (1)
- --------------------------------------------------------------------

Common Stock        15,000        $3.375     $50,625.00    $100.00
  ($0.01 par        shares
   value)

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
(1)   Estimated pursuant to Rule 457 solely for purposes of
calculating the registration fee.  The price is computed on the
basis of the exercise price set forth in the option agreement.

                                  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 Section 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.

   (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
annual report referred to in (a) above.

   (c)   The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in
the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-B, filed pursuant to
Section 12 of the Exchange Act, as filed with the Commission on
December 23, 1986, including any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description.

   (d)   The description of the Company's Common Stock Purchase
Rights contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A
as filed with the Commission on February 16, 1988.

   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
- -------  --------------------------------------

   Legal Opinion.  The validity of the shares of Common Stock to be
offered hereunder has been passed upon for the Company by Gray Cary
Ware & Freidenrich, A Professional Corporation.  Gregory M. Gallo,
an attorney and a member with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, A
Professional Corporation, and its predecessor since 1973, has been a
director of the Company since December 1987.  As of November 8,
1994, attorneys of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, a Professional
Corporation, owned 63,500 shares (including shares subject to
options) of the common stock of the Company.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers
- -------  -----------------------------------------

   Delaware law authorizes corporations to eliminate the personal
liability of directors to corporations and their stockholders for
monetary damages for breach or alleged breach of the directors'
fiduciary "duty of care."  While the relevant statute does not
change 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 directors' duty of
loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or involving
intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law, illegal payment
of dividends or approval of any transaction from which a director
derives an improper personal benefit.

   The Certificate of Incorporation and the By-Laws of the Company
provide for mandatory indemnification of its officers, directors and
key employees to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.  The Company also
has entered into indemnification agreements with its officers and
directors which provide, among other things, mandatory
indemnification of such individuals in situations in which
indemnification is only permissive under Section 145.  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
of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

Item 7.  Exemption From Registration Claimed
- -------  -----------------------------------

   Inapplicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits
- -------  --------
See Exhibit Index.

Item 9.  Undertakings
- -------  ------------
   (a)   Rule 415 Offering

   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,
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)(1)(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.

   (b)   Filing incorporating subsequent Exchange Act documents by
reference

     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.

   (h)   Request for acceleration of effective date or filing of
registration statement on Form S-8

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arises 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.

                           SIGNATURES

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, 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
Longmont, State of Colorado, on November 8, 1994.

                                 MAXTOR CORPORATION

                                 By:  /s/ G. H. Stevens
                                     --------------------
                                 Glenn H. Stevens
                                 Vice President and General Counsel

                           POWER OF ATTORNEY

   The officers and directors of Maxtor Corporation whose signatures
appear below hereby constitute and appoint J. Larry Smart and Glenn
H. Stevens, 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 and his substitutes, shall
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the
following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Signature               Title                               Date

/s/ J. Larry Smart     President, Chief Executive Officer   11/8/94
- ------------------     and Director (Principal Executive    --------
J. Larry Smart         Officer)

/s/ Walter D. Amaral   Vice President, Finance and Chief    11/8/94
- --------------------   Financial Officer (Principal         --------
Walter D. Amaral       Financial Officer)

/s/ R. Balanson        Executive Vice President, Chief      11/8/94
- ---------------        Technical Officer and Director       -------
Richard Balanson

/s/ M. H. Chung        Chairman of the Board                11/8/94
- ---------------                                             -------
M. H. Chung

/s/ Gregory M. Gallo   Director                             11/8/94
- --------------------                                        -------
Gregory M. Gallo

                       Director
- --------------------                                        -------
Charles Hill

/s/ I. B. Jeon         Director                             11/8/94
- --------------                                              -------
I. B. Jeon

/s/ C. S. Park         Director                             11/8/94
- --------------                                              -------
C. S. Park

/s/ Ryal R. Poppa      Director                             11/8/94
- -----------------                                           -------
Ryal R. Poppa

                              EXHIBIT INDEX

4.1   Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company is
      incorporated by reference to the exhibits to the Company's
      quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed February 8, 1994

4.2   Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company are incorporated
      by reference to the exhibits to the Company's quarterly report
      on Form 10-Q filed February 8, 1994

4.3   Stockholders' Rights Agreement is incorporated by reference to
      the exhibits to the Company's current report on Form 8-K
      (No. 0-14016) effective February 8, 1988

5     Opinion regarding legality

23.1  Consent of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5)

23.2  Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors

24    Power of Attorney (included in signature pages to this
      registration statement)