Peripherals: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive.
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by ackmondual - 4/14/06 3:05 PM In reply to: Read the forum policies. You don't want SPAM. by R. Proffitt
drive help
by kgatkinson - 9/13/07 11:28 AM In reply to: Read the forum policies. You don't want SPAM. by R. Proffitt
I see many people received some help on here but I can find the answer. Maybe it was mailed directly to you.
I have an external Lacie 1tb Firewire enclosure that has 2 500GB drives raided together. I have the same issue. Worked yesterday now can't access.
Any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks, 
Re: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive.
by gaurav_malik - 12/4/04 4:45 AM In reply to: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive. by Suzanne KnightHi Suzanne,
Did you have any luck?
I am faced with similar problem. Everything was working fine. A few days ago noticed that the machine was responding very slow. Yesterday tried to access the External drive, no luck!! Have tried to connect it to various machine, no joy.
Did you manage to get your data back?
Regards,
Gaurav
Re: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive.
by jagwa - 12/4/04 10:27 PM In reply to: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive. by Suzanne KnightHi Suzanne,
I'm also using Maxtor One Touch (external HD)..try using OnTrack Recovery software to recover your files then save it in another drive.
Reformat your Maxtor Drive (if not yet formatted) from FAT32 to NTFS (reformatting this drive will erase all your files in the drive.
...hope this helps.
Go-Back
by XENAISIS - 12/22/04 12:56 PM In reply to: Re: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive. by jagwaDo you have Go-Back installed? I find it to be more useful than Restore. It will revert back when Restore won't. I am using Maxtor too. I like to know if you solve your problem.
Something that worked for me.
by holtocw - 1/27/05 10:24 AM In reply to: HELP!!!!!!! Accessing Maxtor External Hard Drive. by Suzanne KnightMy maxtor one touch 200 gig external went wierd on me this morning - the computer assigned it a drive letter and could tell how big it was, but could not access it. Then I realized that I had set it to defragment that drive last night when I left the office. Something got munged in the defrag and the drive wouldn't work correctly. I tried to defrag it again (using the windows defragger) and it couldn't even see the drive.
SOLUTION: I pulled up a cmd prompt, typed in chkdsk n: /f and hit enter. The computer straightened out whatever had been bent and the drive works fine now.
Hope this helps!
This is the Answer!!
by Grifone - 2/21/05 9:57 AM In reply to: Something that worked for me. by holtocwI had the exact same prob as the original poster, and the chkdsk route has just sorted me out.
I only signed up 2 this forum 2 let holtocw know that if they werent just characters on screen, id kiss em 
Result!
Grifone
Thank YOU!!!!
by Grovkillen - 4/25/05 10:43 PM In reply to: Something that worked for me. by holtocwI just opened my command prompt and typed in "chkdsk f:/f" (since it was my f: that was loko) and then hit enter... and after the 3 steps was completed the chkdisk command seemed to freeze but after a couple of minutes it started to correct what was wring and then the drive just popped up, everthing still there... and it seemed to be just as happy to be back
Thanks again holtocw!
Maxtor not recognised by computer
by jonjon1957 - 7/4/05 8:43 PM In reply to: Thank YOU!!!! by GrovkillenThank you so much for your solution using chkdsk k: /f
in RUN I was able to get all my data back...years of work!!!!
Thanks again
John
What to say...
by Sopwith - 6/12/05 7:06 AM In reply to: Something that worked for me. by holtocwHoltocw,
Really hope you will see this. I don't know what to say. I wish i could call you and thank you from the bottom of my heart. After som sporadic screams, tearing of hair, spewing and a couple of hours in the fetal position..... Our 200 gig Maxtor HD started working again. I could hype this for hours, but bottom line: You just saved a company from the dark abyss...Seriously. Holtocw is the hero of the year.
Again, wish you knew what you just did. Thank you!
-Sopwith
This worked for me too
by hdck4124 - 7/31/05 8:07 AM In reply to: Something that worked for me. by holtocwI typed in the exact thing at a command prompt using my correct drive letter "J" and it fixed the problem. I had defraged the drive earlier so that appears to be the cause of the problem.
That's cool, but it doesent work for everybody
by yesenia9380 - 7/31/08 4:52 PM In reply to: This worked for me too by hdck4124i have a WD HDD External Hard Drive for only two weeks. i added many clips of media and i was even bragging how good this uture paper weight was. Well, i tried defrags, chkdsk by holtocw...and nothing it just tells me its a FAT32 then abruptly closes the program.
FAT32 is a sorry thing.
by R. Proffitt - 7/31/08 5:04 PM
In reply to: That's cool, but it doesent work for everybody by yesenia9380
No one seems to tell why it's best to move to NTFS.
Oh My, what a miracle!!!
by sharsuz - 8/2/05 7:34 AM In reply to: Something that worked for me. by holtocwI feel just as the others in this thread do! WOW! You're a miracle worker. Imagine my surprise to find that my drive was dead this a.m., when I have all of my vacation pics on there, not to mention TONS of other important stuff. Your trick worked and was EASY!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Blessings to you!
Sharsuz
Another Thank You and Another Question
by gbarrios - 9/22/05 8:48 AM In reply to: Something that worked for me. by holtocwLike everyone else on this thread I was having trouble with my 250GB Maxtor One-Touch. I store my dgital media files on it (about 9,000 30 MB files) and one day I could see some of the folders on the drive but not most of the. WMP10 still could play all the files I just couldn't access them through Explorer.
In any event, chkdsk fixed the problem. THANK YOU very much.
My question is on maintennance. Is there something that should be done periodically (ie. run chkdsk once a month) to prevent this from happeninng again?
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