When I first installed my drive I plugged it into a 4 port USB Port and now it will only work off one of those ports and nothing else. Thus making its portability impossible and all it can be used for is backing up data files off one machine and I cant take it with me to share data like I should be able to.
Did it copy some sort of bios or something that can be deleted to make it portable again or is it just stuck where it is. If I replace this computer and/or it becomes so outdated its not worth upgrading then I guess I am just left with a Maxtor One Touch Door Stop huh??
Go into the device manager and clear the USB ports.
SOURCE: Maxtor Basics external portable hard drive not getting detected
www.itguru.com has the answer for this
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Does your drive make any sounds similar to these?
If yes you have a mechanical problem and you should get a specialist to work on it if you need that data.
If not - try to remove the drive from the enclosure and connect it directly to the computer to recover your files.
SOURCE: Can't access Maxtor Manager on 250GB Maxtor Basics portable USB
ANY WAY I WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW WHY U WANT TO USE MAXTOR MANAGER..
IF U JUST WANT TO WORK WITH THE HARD DISK U CAN GO TO DISKMANAGEMENT AND INTIALIZE THE HARD DISK AND IT WORKS NORMAL IF U NEED THE MAXTOR MANAGER JUST TRY TO FIND THE APPROPRIATE ONE FRO THERE SITE WHICH MATCHES YOUR HARD DRIVE MODEL.
GOOD LUCK
SOURCE: can't reconize maxtor basic
Here is the support website for the Maxtor....>
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
You will find drivers and things here....
SOURCE: Maxtor Basics portable 320gb Mac to pc compatability problems
Hi Tys,
I had a similar issue with my Maxtor Basics portable 500GB drive. I hadn't formatted mine yet, but had heard there were issues, so decided to find out before I start. I even saw your post here looking for an answer. Finally, one of my friends told me the following solution, which worked fine for me:
Don't format the drive as any of the Mac OS Extended options, simply reformat it as MS-DOS (it should be one of the options in Disk Utilities when you choose Erase and go to the Volume Format dropdown list).
Your Mac should be able to recognise and use the drive in this format and it works for PCs. Transferring files between the two shouldn't be a problem.
A thing to note, though, is that these Maxtor drives apparently come ready-formatted as MS-DOS (mine did). But while my Mac recognised the drive, I couldn't copy files on to it. If this happens, erase this MS-DOS formatting with... MS-DOS. Don't ask me why this works, I'm not a Mac Genius, but now my Maxtor is trouble-free and can transfer files from PC to Mac and back again.
Hope this works out for ya!
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