Running an external hard drive with XP.

Dear sir/madam, I have successfully hooked up this device to my comoputer,i.e,I plugged it into one of my usb ports, and into the power outlet. But, I can't get it to run with XP. Can you please help me. Sincerely, Richard Recas

Anonymous Sep 30, 2008

I recently bought the product from tescos but just wont back anything up.

I plug in data & power lead then power lead then maxtor lead
Anonymous Nov 23, 2008

My Maxtor 3100 will not complete the format operation.

Using Windows XP

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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You probably need to format the hard drive.

Posted on Jul 02, 2007

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