can someone give me some ideas I have a maxtor 1tb portable hard drive that has worked absolutly fine with my win xp system until yesterday but for some reason it's thrown a complete wobbly and now refuses to work, all i get is drive not accessable although in my computer its visable . I have 2 laptops that operate one with windows vista and the other with windows 7 both of these see the drive and both of them will access the drive and anything on the drive works what can I do to get to get the drive working on the xp system again as I want to upgrade the xp system to windows 7 but cant until i get the portable drive to work I tried uninstalling the drivers through device manager and reinstalling but that didnt work ,any ideas would be gratefully appreciated
no not yet am in the middle of checking the drive for errors on the win 7 machine but will try that although not hopeful of a fix
Have now tried an earlier point but no luck doesnt recognise the file system am running some virus scans but think it might need a format on the win 7 machine and then start again
It sounds like it is time for a good file recovery app...the problem is probably very small, just in a very important area. Usually you can get your files back from a drive like this; but they may be missing their names.
