When he booted to my new system hard drive, he had to tell my that my comp suddenly could not recognize my storage hard drive. I could see in the bios that it took a few seconds to auto recognize the maxtor drive. Now my computer is upgraded and I can see for myself that Windows XP cannot accept the drive at all. Bios can see that it is Maxtor, but XP won't use it. It was working fine before I took it to the service.
Now I don't care about anything but getting my stuff back from the invisible drive if possible. This includes over a year of my work, my portfolio and resume, all my internet accounts and passwords, FAQs and Tutorials. I will never again trust Maxtor and will back up everything I have from now on. Please give me some steps I could take that might lead to me getting my data back! I am lost on what to do right now and can only think of typing long rambling impassioned pleas and posting it here I even put a quasi-hidden message in bold Joined Jan 23, Messages 12, First off I would not be as quick to blame Maxtor as the tech who made an error somehow booting to the wrong drive.
Some people say that they have had success accessing drives that are not truly dead using a Linux live cd. You could give this a try. Maybe someone else who has done this will chime in with a little information as to how to do this.
Joined Mar 18, Messages 3, Good Afternoon Happy Chappies, if the BIOS can actually see the drive there is an excellent chance to access the drive with Linux and either copy or slide the files you want to save to another media. Probably most linuxes would do it actually! So if you would like to give one of these systems a try there is a minor learning curve involved. The system to use would be a Live Linux CD, that is it does not need to be installed to a hard drive but runs from the CD and loads the operating system into memory.
I like Puppy Linux personally because it loads entirely into memory and runs as ramdrive with a full complement of programs and allows greater device use possibility. It is a free 60 meg download and needs a special burning method to make a bootable CD.
Knoppix is a considerably bigger file and needs a similar process but may be marginally easier for a newbee. If you might like to give this a try I will elaborate. Do you have access to download a 60 meg file? Do you have a CD burner? Do you have suitable media to save files to? Are you a brave and intelligent person?
If you answer no to any of the above there may be a problem. LOL Don't worry the process will not erase or damage your files. Joined Mar 20, Messages Try this first, as when you removed the drive, the OS may have pulled the reference from its start sequence. This will show you all the drives recognized by XP even if they don't show up in Explorer. From here you can right click on the drive and select options. First thing is to Assign a drive letter. Then click apply and see if it shows.
Good Luck. All three of you have sparked some hope in me again. Now that I've slept, eaten and played TES4 Oblivion for three hours, I'm willing to put the moaning and wailing aside. Thank you for not kicking me while I was prostrate in a swamp of my own self drama. I had forgotten that this Maxtor drive was a bit older and that I had to download a little program to make it readable.
The technician did say something similar to that effect. Honestly, I thought that he removed a jumper while I was not looking and was waiting for an opportunity to switch a new drive for some cash and all my data. So you have givin me a plan with some backup.
Ironic, isn't it? I shall try the big drive enabler first because if I play with linux then I am likely to die from exposure to learning. If that doesn't work then I may find myself where no me has ever gone before.
Yes, on dial-up. I did not back up my stuff for over a year. No, but I will have to be for the time being. Appeals to masculinity is a false premise here, as I have none. More on this later Joined Feb 20, Messages 51, So you are now using this original drive as a slave, right? Is that correct? If so, I would try putting it in another computer just to make sure its some some problem with your computer specifically. Yes, I have dl'd the Powermax utility and am about to use it.
I do have an extra 'computer' to try the hard drive on that runs at Mhtz. I will try this as a master drive after trying everything I'm doing now.
I am willing to go to the Puppy Linux System as well. I don't know what special way of burning a disk is involved. If it means running a small program designed for it, then yes it is do-able, as I have used directcd and gone through the process of making the cd readable on all ibm compatible machines.
I have re-attached the hard drive in question and, as usual bios knows that it is Maxtor but Windows XP can't see it, yet. Touching the top of the drive I can feel a slight vibration, so the power supply is fine. The dvd recorder on the end of the same cable is also visible, showing the Incubus cd that is currently inside - so the cable is fine ShiVER said:.
I'll have to delay the placing the drive into another computer, as something even worse is happening. Is there any hope in using a Linux live cd? It may have to be this way unless I am missing something. A 60 Mb download on dial-up would be a trivial price to pay if it could get my data back from this drive. As a reserve option I would recommend considering the Linux idea, it really is not that hard.
It may be an idea to obtain the file called puppy Notice this is an ISO file which is a compressed kind of file containing an awful lot of other stuff.
Don't treat it as an ordinary zipped kind of file. Just leave it on you desktop. This is real difficult stuff, you may need to use your mouse finger several times!
Connect the Maxtor external drive to your computer and make sure it can be detected. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Then, at the same page, choose partition style for your drive. Otherwise, choose GPT. Step 4. Step 5. Here is the place where you change file system to FAT Also, you can do many other modifying. Step 6. Nevertheless, there are some cases you might want to pay attention to.
Moreover, DiscWizard formats drive well in new drive. How about used drive with NTFS file system? To solve those troubles, it is a wise move to turn to reliable third-party Maxtor hard drive format software. Connect the Maxtor hard drive you want to format to your computer and make sure it is detected. In the pop-up window, you have options to edit partition label, choose file system and cluster size.
With less steps and clearer approach than Seagate DiscWizard, one can format Maxtor hard drive with ease. In a nutshell, users would like to format hard drive to FAT32 when they want to: 1.
Tip : Seagate DiscWizard also performs low level format. Still Need Help?
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