External Hard Drive Failure

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  1. Thebib62

    Thebib62 Member

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    I've had a Maxtor 250GB (more or less) external hard drive since 2005.
    http://www.superwarehouse.com/images/products/maxtor_onetouch_firewire_250gb.jpg

    Around 2007 i thought it had died, because when i plug it in to my pc the autoload screen comes up and scans each file in the drive very slowly. But once its done scanning, i cant see any files at all.

    But here's the weird thing, if i hook the external hard drive to my xbox360, i can view all my pictures and videos with no problems at all.
    Yes i have plugged the hdd to a different computer aswel(laptop)
    and still the same thing, is there anything i can do to make this external HDD be viewable the way it is on my xbox360?

    Note i do have spinrite 6.0

    ~Thanks for any and all help
     
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    Turn of autoplay for the drive.
     
  3. Thebib62

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    how would i go about doing that?
     

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