Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Flame on May 08, 2006, 03:29:14 PM
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Hey guys, hopefully someone can help me out here... My Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 External HD is having an issue... I was backing it up with Norton Ghost, and I noticed that the system was a bit buggy, so I told Ghost to Cancel the Operation when the backup was 3% complete... Well... Now, I can plug in the HD, and it makes the two tone sounds, and then I can't access it... It won't show-up in my computer or anything... I can see it in the Device Manager, which of course, says that it's working fine. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it (plug and play) and it still won't pick it up... Can someone please tell me how to access this drive again?
Flame
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Just because I always ask, was this drive formatted NTFS?
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Well, I think it comes stardard in FAT32, but it says that when you put XP on it, it HAS to go to NTFS... I backed up an exact image of my HD, so I don't know...
Flame
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Well, Maxtor support just said to right-click on My Computer and select manage. After that, just reformat the HD. Only problem is, I have a few options here, and I'm not sure which I'm supposed to format... Attached to this message is a screenshot of what the Manage menu shows... Please tell me which I need to format if you know! :-/
Flame
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Ok, they told me it was the one that is 93.37 GB, so I'm formatting it right now... It's [timestamp=1147209361] so I'll write back when formatting completes... Slow process :o
Flame
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Sorry for the very delayed response, but problem was solved! I guess when I cancelled the copying operation, it had erased some files and lost its configuration. Reformatting the drive seemed to fix it. Thanks to all that helped ;D
Flame