im sorry, i dont know what all this means.....im still new at using computers.....
but here is another problem.....sometimes, the drive doesnt show up in the "my computer" icon......also, the computer sometimes doesnt recognize it properly......instead of identifying it as a maxtor drive, it just names it a bunch of random numbers and letters and symbols.
also, this has happened before. it says the format thing, but if i restart the computer, the drive works again! should i just buy a brand new drive?
to recover the data, is there something that i, myself, can do without help? i dont really want to bring my hard drive to some place and have to pay money if i can just do it myself......i know this is asking a lot, but i want to know how to fix my own computer!