maxtor

I have a Maxtor 3200 external hard drive and i have had it working on windows 7 but all of a sudden it has stop showing up on windows explorer, it is there on the Devices & Printers and when i have plug it in i get the ping, so i have tried to load the drivers in but they fail to install. the...

Hello there, My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi). A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...

When I first built my pc, my Seagate SATA drive arrived DOE, so I used a older 100GB IDE Maxtor and used Windows 7 x86 without problems for about a month. The drive has since been used as a backup drive by my brother for the past 9 months. It has had no problems till now. I installed it...

I bought a new graphics card and it's one that takes to pci slots and it covers the sata ports on my mobo. The only hard drives i have are sata drives so my friend gave me the card to use till i can get a new mobo. So i need to install the drivers becuse when i try to use it windows crashes half...

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...

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...

Hi, i used to have ubuntu on my pc but as a gamer i allways use windows too,i have 2 maxtor 250gb and one 500gb WD which i want to use only for data,so first i installed ubuntu 10.04LTS on one maxtor i formated the WD as "FAT(Visible to windows)" - that's what ubuntu said.. and then i...

I should say at the beginning, that the actual message is in German, but I believe this to be the correct English version. I have spent hours searching for an answer to this question, and in the past I have always managed to solve networking problems myself, but now I am stumped! Setup is...

I am in need of help on this machine. It is a custom build with Win7 Enterprise 32bit. Mobo is ECS P4M800PRO-M ver 2.0, Cpu Pentium D 3.0, rma OCZ DDR400 pc3200, Video visiontec HD2600pro apg, hd 300gb maxtor 7200 16 mb sata that is the basics. It has an issue with freeze or lockup require hard...

Recently I bought a Windows 7 pc. After years with XP and Vista - and NAS'es Qnap TS-109 and Maxtor Shared Storage Plus - I am suddenly very unsatisfied:( Once every day (or moere) my pc loses contact with the NAS'es. Only way to get connected again is to cut power since restart is not possible...

I can see the usb Hard drive on all the lists. my computer and the device manager but it does not show any volume and when I go to click on the icon to ppull it up the drive the task par just shows a very slow progress on teh green line and never stops searching. any clue on what to do? This...

Heyo forum-goers, what I am trying to do is sort of complicated but I'll try my best to explain it. Basically I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of potential out of my nearly outdated machine. First, my relevant system specs: - Windows 7 Pro 64bit - 2 IDE Hard drives - 5400rpm 80GB Maxtor, and...

Just successfully installed Win 7. However, I cannot re-install my MS Office 2007 in Win 7. My prior version is out there on my Maxtor drive however I cannot point to the correct location of the MS Office 2007 software on that drive so that I can re-install on my new Hitachi drive where Win 7...

Hello all! Im new to this forum but i thought maybe you can help. I had Windows 7 RC 32bit, and i found one of my maxtor Sata/150 Pci cards so i can get all my hard drives connected and working. In windows 7RC i got that card to work, i dont exactly remember how, but somehow i did it :D. Now i...

I just created a new rig with a Athlon black 2.8 cpu, gigabyte MoBo 4gb of corsair ram. The hard disk I'm using is a Maxtor SATA. I believe it has the S.M.A.R.t tech built in. win7 keeps giving me a message that the Hard disk is going to fail. I ran a disk checked and it seemed fine. it did...

Hi I have a maxtor basics usb desktop 500 gig external hard drive and it doesn't seem to work. I plugged it in and windows said it was installing updates, that finished and said this was complete. I then went onto computer management and I can see it under device manager, and when I go into...

I'm running Win 7, RC1 and it's great. However, my portable drives don't show up when I plug them in. I have an external Maxtor 250 that connects to the same computer via USB and it works fine. But the portables do not. One is a SimpleTech 120GB and the other is an Iomega 250GB. Both work fine...

I recently bought a maxtor 500 gb external hdd and i just cant get it to work with windows 7, i got a computer at home where i want to keep it that has windows 7 rc , I have tryed everything i can think of to make it work but nothing does, I cant see it in my computer or with the explorer, but I...

Hello, I have just a few questions about Windows 7. I want to try it out, but I need the answers first. 1. I heard that you can download the RC1 from Microsoft on May 5. Will there ever be a RC2 or full version that is legal to download? 2. I have a Maxtor hard drive for the (I:) Is it...

hello folks its me again, this time i'd like to hear how and why did you enable SATA 3.0gb/s mode and did you notice any performance boost? I have a (as shown in my device manager) "Maxtor 6V250F0 ATA Device" I connected it via the SATA connectors and it worked without a problem. But now I...