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You can try and restore your partition using Testdisk its free http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
If that does not work you probably have a damaged drive and will need data recovery. This guy is good and works off of donations. http://FreeDataRecovery.us
Hi Jane, If you are using Windows as an operation system, you can try to install the HDD manually
Click on the Start button Right click on My Computer click on properties at the bottom look for the Hardware tab and click on it look for the Device Manager button and click look for Action in the top menu then scan for new hardware
If this does not work, look on the Device Manager screen and you will see + Disk Drives click on the + and it will list the drives that it sees if you see the external HDD uninstall it and reboot
Sounds like you're on the right track, but you don't need to buy another drive to get the software. Go to the link below and find the download for your drive in the list.
The software downloads are a free form of support from Maxtor.
you got it man you have two reason for bios like you tell me and your partition table so download magic partition on your windows xp and you will be able to correct this easely
bye and good lock if you have other problem for this tell me
It could be a couple things - do you still have the Maxtor software installed on the PC? If not you may need to reinstall the software because it may be a password protection issue.
If that is not the case the drive could be damaged. If damaged you may or may not be able to recover the data. Try downloading a product I have used before from Easeus (http://www.easeus.com/). Its drive recovery software and may locate the drive when Windows cannot.
If that does not work you may need a professional to repair the drive or recover the data.
You can check if your
external hard drive is detected by the BIOS during bootup. You can also
check this by Right click on taskbar > properties > startmenu
> customize > advanced > scroll down completely and select
system administration tools "Display on the all programs menu" > ok.
Click on start > all programs > administrative tools >
computer management > double click on storage. click on disk
management(local) here you should see your lacie. If you dont then the
drive is probably not detected. If you see, you can just partition it
from here and it will appear in your my computer. If it is indeed detected, you will have to use a application like Recover my files to recover your data and then partition and format the drive.
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