I recently found a maxtor external HDD in my basement. According to my pop it hasn't been used in years. I found the cables and such and decided to give it a whirl as I am in need of some space to back up some things, its pretty old so its only a 120 gig disk. It seems to power on as a blue light appears on the front of the silver case when I flip the switch, however when I plug it into my laptop via usb nothing is recognized, as if it weren't even plugged in, no tone or anything. Is this drive a brick am I doing something wrong. model is : one touch E-D011
toss up whether it is the drive or the enclosure has gone bad. try the drive without the enclosure internally on a tower if the drive is a 3.5" version.
