I have a Maxtor hard drive which I put into an external hard drive enclosure and I plugged into my computer. In the devise manager it recognizes that it is connected but I cannot access it from 'my computer'.(it doesn't even show up) this drive was used on my previous comp which craped out on my due to bad power supply and bad motherboard. i have info on this drive so i'm not looking to format it.
SOURCE: My maxtor one touch II enxternal will not paower up!
I took out the harddrive and put it internally into my G5 tower and it worked.
SOURCE: Maxtor Maxline II 250 GB
Your motherboard might not be recent enough to accept the 250GB drive at full capacity.
Download this (manual for this drive):
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/manuals/maxline_plus_ii_manual.pdf
Appendix A describes the 137GB problem. Basically, the motherboard can't comprehend such a large drive (which didn't exist when this board was developed), and BIOS isn't able to reference memory beyond 137GB (28-bit addressing).
The drive is probably fine, but you'll have to set the Cylinder Limitation Jumper in order to use at least some of its capacity (c.f. section 3.3.1.4 in the Maxline Manual). BIOS will consider the drives 32GB in size, but Windows might be able to detect the full capacity using its own methods.
A similar problem is probably happening with your original 60GB drive. There is a chance that BIOS is set incorrectly, preventing Windows from using the full capacity (usually a setting like "Large Block Addressing" or "LBA").
SOURCE: Master slave jumper settings on 250gb Maxline Plus II SATA
There are no master/slave settings on SATA drives because each drive has its own cable. The drive order is determined by what SATA port they are plugged into, or by the BIOS configuration.
Restart your computer with the XP Setup disk in the CDROM drive. If you are prompted to press a key to start the computer from CDROM, do so quickly. Otherwise it may try to boot from the hard drive. After a few minutes, you'll see a prompt to press the R key to start the Recovery Console. When Recovery Console starts, it will prompt you to enter a number corresponding to the Windows XP installation that you need to repair. In most cases, you'll enter "1" (which will be the only choice). If you press ENTER without typing a number, Recovery Console will quit and restart your computer. Enter your Administrator password. If you don't enter the correct password, you cannot continue. At the Recovery Console command prompt, type fixmbr and then verify that you want to proceed. Your damaged MBR will be replaced with a shiny new one, and you should then be able to boot your system normally. In some cases, you may need to repair the boot sector in addition to the MBR. If your system still doesn't boot properly, repeat the steps above, but issue the fixboot command instead. Hope this helps
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