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I replace my hard drives after 2 or 3 years. Yours seems to have quit early, possibly the transformer is not working. If your external drive lights up, the electronics could be bad. At any rate, the bad news is it sounds like time for a new drive. I hope you have a backup of the contents.
usually drives come with 3-5 year warranty .. USB external drives in todays standards are backed up with 5 years typically. i suggest you go to the link below, get in contact with Seagate (Maxtor) and have them tell you when it was made.
Check the USB port and/or the cable, check if windows can detect your device. If windows can detect but can't read data perform a format or delete the partition and then use any file or partition recovery software you want to use. They will automatically rebuild partition table and MBR according to your need. If windows can't detect, unplug your device, uninstall the driver from the device manager, restart your pc, plug your device again and see windows will automatically install the device.
go to my computer proeprty then uninstall usb driver and then right clik any driver then clik on scan for hardware then it searches usb and install automatically.
Does it give you an error message ? Are you running Windows XP or Vista? If so post it here so the problem can be further narrowed down. You might want to try a chkdsk.
In Windows XP and Vista both, a shortcut to get to the command console is holding the Windows Key and pressing R.
in the command console, type: chkdsk X: /f /r
Where X is the drive letter of the drive giving you problems.
This will run a chkdsk on your external, restoring files and folders that cannot be accessed.
I also have a Maxtor External hard drive and have to do this quite often. It's pretty frustrating.
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