I, urgently, need to get information stored in Maxtor, but cannot do it, because I don't get the contents' information screen.
Are you saying when you Click My Computer the hard drive (Local Drive C) is not showing up?
Are you able to see the Start at the bottom left portion of the screen?
Maybe a virus has hidden your files, folders and desktop icons. It might have hidden your start menu at the bottom left and the taskbar too.
Sounds like a virus has hidden your files and folders. When you click
start do you see My Computer or is Start not there at the lower left on
the screen?
If the Start is located at the bottom left then click
it and see if you have things inside of it such as Programs or All
Programs, etc.
Try the step below:
Open the Task Manager by
clicking Ctrl+Alt+Del. Press and Hold the Ctrl key and the Alt Key,
then hit the Del key. Run the Task Manger.
In the upper left hand
corner of the Task Manager window click File then select New Task
(Run...). When the Create New Task window opens type: explorer.exe and
press OK. Look for My Computer on the left when explorer returns the
results. Don't click the + sign to the left of My Computer, instead
click directly on the words My Computer, then look to the right and you
will see Local Disk C. Click on Local Disk C one time just to highlight
it, you don't want to open it. Once you have it highlighted in blue go
to the top of the window and click Tools/Folder Options/View and look
down and select Show Hidden Files and Folders.
Things should
start appearing if not you can open the Local Disk C drive and click
Documents and Settings (Windows XP) or Users (Windows 7) and look down
and find the userid or user folders and Right Click on the Folder and
select Properties. Look down for the Attributes near the bottom and if
the Hidden has check in the box Remove the Check and click Apply. When
Prompted apply the setting to all subfolders so that they too will not
be hidden. Depending on the of the folder this might take a few
minutes. This should restore you back to being operational.
You should download and run MalwareBytes to get rid of the infection.
Go
to www.google.com and in the search box type:"Download cnet
Malwarebytes" (without the quotes). Download andinstall malwarebytes
from the sites download.cnet/malwarebytes. When thesite opens up click
on the Green Download button on the left. Do not click the Red Download
button, that's junk. When it finishes installing the GuiInterface will
open up with an offer to Accept a Trial Version or Decline. CLICK
DECLINE you want the totally free version. Run a QUICK SCAN. As it
scans, if it finds infections the number will be inred. When it
finishes scanning, click SHOW RESULTS. A notepad text document will open
up showing you the results. You can close the text document and go back
to the Gui Interface where you will click REMOVE SELECTEDRESULTS. The
objects will already be selected for you. When it finishes removing the
objects click ok and it will sometimes reboot your machine.
If, it sounds like your computer booted up but the screen is black. Try the steps below.
Shine a flashlight on the dark screen to see if you barely see the icons on the desktop. If so, then the LCD Inverter is bad.
Plug in an external monitor and see if the display shows up on it. It can be any kind of monitor even the old big fat crt monitors as long as it has a vga cable to connect to your computer's vga port. If so that proves your video card is ok. The video will show on most systems when you reboot without you having to do anything. Some systems will require you to hit the FN (Function key) + F1 thru F12. Hold down the FN key then hit the correct key for displaying on the monitor (F1 thru F12). The correct key will normally have CRT/LCD on it or it will have the icon of a display.
If you see no icons by shinning a flash light and the external monitor works, then your screen is bad. If you see no icons by shinning the flash light and nothing shows on the external monitor, then most likely your video card is bad.
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if you are trying to recover a key of an already installed program on your computer there are freeware keyfinders on the internet
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then store it away for safe keeping not on your computer
hope this helps
Thank You Mr. David,
For choosing my
services.
I will try my level best to help
you,
First start with very basic
Troubleshooting steps
1. Switch
off both devices.
2. Make
connections S-Videos
3. Now
switch on Laptop (As you mentioned its dell)
4. Now
switch on TV or monitor.
5. Now
hold (fn key) and simultaneously press f8 or f7) f8 for dell. (key which
contains display icon on it).
6. Fn
and f8 key helps in toggling displays in 3 modes-
7. Laptop
display
8. Monitor
/TV display
9. Both
of displays
If you are Using Windows 7 then
follow these settings after above troubleshooting steps
-- (Click to expand) Jumper settings for Seagate SATA drives 
-- (Click to expand) Jumper settings for Maxtor-brand SATA drives 
-- (Click to expand) Jumper settings for Seagate ATA drives 
-- (Click to expand) Jumper settings for Maxtor-brand ATA drives If you have completed the above checks and procedures and the drive is still not properly detected, please attempt to use Seatools for DOS (see the tutorial here) to test the drive. If SeaTools does not detect the drive after the steps followed above, or an error code that signifies drive failure displays, please proceed to the our Warranty Services page to begin a warranty replacement order.
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