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The usb cable from my sisters hard drive works fine with mine so it is not as if the cable was damaged Edited July 6, by Lapse. Posted December 20, I was then able to copy the data from his main drive removed from his PC and then jacked to mine onto this maxtor. My sister has a and it started playing up the other day and refused to work 3 minutes after turning on her computer i'm not sure that this is associated or not but i wouldn't bet against it. G'day Guys Firstly, sorry for bumping up such an old topic, but seeing as it was on the first page of google search for "Maxtor not recognised" i figured it gets visited a fair bit by people with this same problem My sister has a and it started playing up the other day and refused to work 3 minutes after turning on her computer i'm not sure that this is associated or not but i wouldn't bet against it. Here in this article, you'll find quick fixes and reliable solutions to repair and fix this issue without losing any data. Drive in Maxtor External Personal Storage

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Share this post Link to post Share on other sites. If nothing is found in the Maxtor external hard drive or USB drive, relax! Register a new account. Basically in an attempt to save her stuff she brought it to me and i plugged it into my Laptop a Dell D and I was having the same problem as you kaxtor all been having.

Maxtor 8 GB external hard drive, no driver - Microsoft Community

Thats my theory anyway If the vendor doesn't support Windows7, there is not much Microsoft can do other than try a workaround. This thread is locked.

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Posted January 2, edited. Then check whether the Maxtor external hard disk or USB drive can be detected or not. Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers attempt to trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services.

Even worse sometime it does recognizes it but as CD drive only shivering Posted January 1, So how do I fix this problem? Maxtor 8 GB external hard drive. Usually the problem always lies with the power supply of the external enclosure. Look in Device Manager on your computer under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, and my bet is that your computer uses this chipset.

The is an USB2 device.

Repair and Restore Not Recognized Maxtor External Hard Drive/USB without Losing Data

I have the same question 4. Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can easily recover de…. It has worked fine ever since. Now your Maxtor external hard drive or USB drive should be accessible to be opened and work normally. Is it possible to make the Maxtor external hard drive or USB drive detectable again? I've tried maxtot possible combination of turning off the Maxtorre-booting the computer, plugging in the USB.

Microsoft offers direct support only to retail 7 customers not those that bought a computer with 7 installed. I tell him about the weird maxtor troubleshooting advice, he follows it, but it doesn't work for him.

Thanks for marking this as the answer. The USB bus may or may not do so. Uninstall drive drivers Extra Tips: I have seen numerous problems like this - with USB harddisks that are bus-powered.

Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 - hard drive - 80 GB - USB 2.0 Series

How satisfied are you with this reply? Here, in this part, you'll find three methods to fix and repair the not detectable Maxtor hard drive by running Disk Management tool, using free manager software or CMD to repair Maxtor external hard drive errors or maxtog and re-install drive drivers to fix this issue.

My computer cannot detect cp Maxtor USB drive. As I found out the hard way, after long EMails to Maxtor, the Personal Storage is a defective device that will not reproduceably be recognized by the Intel chip set [