Maxtor Basics 1Tb external hard drive not working

If it is the external hard drive enclosure that is broken then yes. But if it is the hard drive itself that is broken then no.
From what happened I'm thinking that it is the external hard drive enclosure that is broken. That being said, you can easily buy one without the hard drive online. When doing this be sure you know what kind of hard drive is in your Maxtor enclosure. This is important because you need to be sure that your hard drive and enclosure are compatible. Check to see if it uses SATA, ATA, or PATA connectors and then buy the corresponding external hard drive enclosure.
Once you have bought your new empty external hard drive enclosure, it is simply a matter of opening up your Maxtor enclosure and moving the hard drive inside to your newly purchased enclosure and connecting it to your computer.
To avoid problems like this in the future, look into "cloud based storage" to back up all of your data securely online.

sir my problem is hard disk bad sector how bad sector fix in hard disk

I have had this happen chances are you drive is gone you can look on the internet and read about a trick and frezzing the hard drive in a zip lock bag but this is the final last resort I had maxtor recover my data if its still under warrenty

Right Click on My Computer, click on Manage, go to Disk Managment, if the drive is available you will see it there. Check to see if it has a drive letter assigned to it, if not right click on it and choose Change Drive letters. Make sure you are on the external drive though, you don't want to change your C drive accidentally. It should pop up in My Computer.

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!

K

Apri il prompt dei comandi e digita cd.. e premi enter tante volte quante servono per andare in C:> ; ora digita CHKDSK X: \F dove X: dovrai sostituirlo con la lettera assegnata all'HD in cui non riesci ad entrare, premi enter. In poco tempo corregge gli errori, non si sa (almeno io) come si sono formati, e tornerai a riveder le stelle! Te lko auguro ame ha funzionato

Get all your data off of the drive and then try to format it. If you still have errors, the drive is more than likely failing

its the drivers not installed on vista.. ur drive is fine

im sorry, but it sounds like a hardware problem. theirs not many options.
you may either void your warranty by opening it up and hoping you can use the hard drive in another case (hope its not the hard drive)
or you can return it under the warranty. That is a bummer.

The terrabyte hard drives havent been completley worked out yet. i have heard of a bunch of problems with them failing because of how they are made. The scary part is i dont think they fixed all the problems with the 1tb drives and now they are moving onto 2 tb's!?!?!?

click on the hard drive and use the disc manager to format
or right click on the hard drive properties and use the format tab