Most people depend greatly on their hard drive(s) to be (a) reliable and safe media for storing those files. Well, if you have a Maxtor hard drive and tend to not back up your stuff, you might want to think about doing so on either CD, DVD or on a backup hard drive made by another manufacturer....

i should have run a harddrive diagnostic *first* but i didn't. anyway, i was working on an XP machine that would not boot up to the gui. even attempting to boot to safe mode, the system hung about halfway through . from the recovery console i did a chkdsk /r and got the system working ok. a few...

My HP Pavillion (around 3-4 years old) has a message on start-up: a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"img src="http:// i9.tinypic.com/4uuyx6f.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"/a Can someone tell me if this is a real message? It also fails the CHKDSK on step 4...

Hi I have a Maxtor 6Y200MO (200GB) Hard Drive that has just suddenly decided to fail on me. It is still recognised in the BIOS, and when I check its' properties within My Computer, it reports that there is nothing on the drive and it is in RAW format. The drive is used mainly for archiving DVD's...

Last night I tried to boot up my system and I was greeted with a 4 tone beep that would cycle pause then cycle again. It sounded almost like a cell phone ringing. Well I quickly deduced that the HD (Maxtor 120GB 8mb cache) wasn't spinning up but just to be sure I put it in my test bed computer. Now...

When doing fresh install on this drive, the windows setup sees 131g, not 200. I did install the SATA driver when asked at the start of the setup. Any reason why this would happen?

Hi all, Not over a year ago, I purchased a Maxtor One touch 3 with 300gb. It was working fine until recently I had the problem. I did disk management and reinstalling/installing the device. Device Status tells me that the device could not "start". The HD could not recognize it due to the device...

Recent Black Friday sales encouraged me to purchase a Maxtor 200GB PATA100 Hard drive. I didn't know or care what particular model it was for the price but was surprised to find this "Maxtor Basics", DiamondMax 21 drive is actually a Seagate 7200.10 with 3 year warranty. Seagate had claimed they...

Hello!!! I have a problem. My maxtor 250Gb external one-touch drive doesn't work anymore. I have tried everything with no result so now I just want to get back the files on it. I checked with a recovery program and it seems that all my files on the drive are intact. The question is: All the various...

Can anyone advise me as to the output voltage of the AC Power Adapter for the Maxtor One Touch II? My kids have lost the power adapter for my backup drive and I have to buy a new adapter. Maxtor is out of stock for the adapter. TIA KB

I bought two Maxtor One Touch USB drives and both failed on the NTFS format under Windows XP Home (all current updates applied) The formatting meter gets to 100% but then an error displays that the format failed. Can anyone help? TIA, Dan

Have this drive and it's failed. When i turn on the switch at the back i can hear the drive spin up (without touching the button at the front of the drive!) When trying to turn on the unit using the onetouch switch at the front, nothing. I took the unit apart (voiding the warranty (i know...

Hi folks. i have the following problem with my USB external Harddisk: i can see it in the explorer as local harddisk but i havn't access to it. The problem began as i turned off the electric supply off the external drive, when my PC was hanged. I couldn't deactivate the HDD correctly with the...

Looking for disassembly instructions for a Maxtor OneTouch III 300GB combo USB / FireWire external drive. Found instructions for the 500GB Turbo drives, but those are too different from my single-drive 300GB model to be useful. Have searched extensively, so any useful hints would be...

I have a Maxtor OneTouch Turbo III it was striped RAID 0 2x500gb It has Crashed. The data on there will destroy my business. My Computer will not recognize it at all now. All of the sudden. I have tried plugging it into 3 other computers all running XP and in non of the machines will it...

Hi All I recently purchased a 300GB Maxtor OneTouch USB2/Firewire drive. I have noticed one thing though that I hope someone else with one of these drives can confirm. If I use USB2 to connect to the drive, when I select "Safely Remove Hardware" in XP to disconnect the drive I hear the drive...

Has anyone any experience of these drives? I was all set to buy one until I read somewhere that you need to install a driver to make them actually work. Is this the case does anyone know? I only want it for backup so can install the driver, this is not a problem, but would rather it not need it...

I am switching my old computer from IDE hard drives to SATA hard drives. Apparently, IDE/PATA drives are being phased out and would not be suitable for long-term storage of data. I read that Maxtor (Seagate) drives have a tendency to run louder and hotter than Western Digital drives. Is this...

Hi, I have a 80gb one of these drives. How much noise should I expect them to make? It just seems like it makes a hell of a lot of noise. Does the case make a considerable difference? I only have another CDRW in the drive rack with it. Anyone?

Does anyone own one of these? http://www.maxtorsolutions.com/en/catalog/MSS_Plus/ I'm thinking about buying one, but really would love to know if you can use the darn thing without any proprietary software - for example - can I just map a drive in windows to the hard drive without using the...