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the laptop is 32 bit , I imagine the usb drives would be supported by win7 64 bit they were working last week, this is a recent development just looked up on Maxtor's site and they do not support any 64bit platform nor do they plan to. wow well so much for using these drives as backup...

2 external Maxtor usb drives plugged in when booting I get this message "a disk error has occurred hit ctrl alt del" and the machine a dell xps9100 win 7 64bit will not boot. if I unplug the drives it boots no problem. if I plu either one in I get this message. I tried plugging the drives into...

Thanks Trouble, you rock!! it worked like a charm

Have 2 Maxtor external drives, one GB and one TB drive. Both connected to a windows 7 PC and a network of 3 other PCs 1-win7, 2-vista. I can connect and access the 1TB drive no problem, but the 500 Gb shows up as a shared drive but I cannot access it remotely no matter what PC it's connected to...