Hi All, I have been using a maxtor external, usb, 200gig drive to store my personal stuff for about a year. The other day when i double clicked on it in "my computer" to open it, it was empty? Also the computer no longer knows how much used/free space is on the drive? After a trouble shoot the computer now says the system on the external is RAW? (i think it used to ntfs?). If i take take the drive out of the case & put it into my PC as a slave & double click on the drive in "my computer" it comes up with an IO error? Does anyone know what i can do to retrieve the files on my external?? Thanks in advance for any help. Debbie
sounds like the drive crashed try and run a disk utility program on it like spin rite or disk warrior. if they dont help, the drive probably crashed. you have to be careful with external drives.
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Hi...new here and looking for help. what else? I have an external hard drive (internal in a box and fairly new). I have about 10, but this is first time i have ever seen this issue. It looked like it failed and red light came on, so my first instinct was to remove from one usb port and try another. When i removed usb plug from external USB the green indicator light went on so i naturally thought that i was correct in my assumption and tried an "on board" usb port. As soon as i plugged it in the red light came on again and drive was not recognized. Any clues?
