Communication between hard drives

Typically, if your seeing that green light, it means you don't have enough power from your power supply. You may need to disconnect some of the other components for the drive to boot up. Ultimately, if you want to continue using the new drive, you'll need to replace out the power supply with a larger one.

Good Luck

You said it has stopped being picked up when plugged in so I hope this is note is relevantbut I don't think it is abnormal for it just to blink.

If the OneTouch does not appear in My Computer or cannot befound by Maxtor Manager, right click on My Computer icon and select Properties,Device Manager, Disc drives, and expand Disc Drives.

There may be ayellow overlay over Maxtor drive, to show it has a problem, so right click onit and select 'Choose drivers for this device' to reinstall them.

Without goingonline they seem to be found and reinstalled from somewhere locally on the PC and I hope this willdo the trick.
Also in case this helps, I don't find the OneTouch (Maxtor Manager) software appears when the driveis plugged in, so I think this is normal too.

You should look for an icon (a capital M within a blue disc) for Maxtor Managerin the taskbar, at the bottom right of the PC's screen.

Right clicking on this icon, (capital M), should bring up awindow with Maxtor Manager at the top.

Then click on the text 'Maxtor Manager' to open the program's window.

Hope this is what you wanted.

Try it on another computer. Is the blue light on the front on or blinking?

Open Disk Utility and select Repair Disk on that drive.

Is it still under warranty?

If you hear a click-click sound it means that your drive's mechanics ia failing. BAD NEWS !!

Maxtor is dead.Possible mother board on maxtor is burn't hook another power wire up to it.

Solution:
First, disconnect the power cable from the back of the external hard drive:
If the power supply LED continues to blink:

1. Connect the power supply to a different outlet (or instead of connecting to a power strip, connect directly to an outlet in the wall).
   
   
2. If the power supply continues to blink after changing outlets, this indicates that the power supply is defective and needs to be replaced.
   
   
3. If the power supply stays solid, then reconnect to the external hard drive and see if the drive spins.

sure..the power is not the key issue..what you might consider, is calling a local computer fix it shop, and ask how much to recover that data..then, you may be well advised to consider an online back utility, such as you can find here.

One hard drive failure mode is a power circuit short. Contact MAXTOR support on their web site for a possible warranty replacement. BTW, SEAGATE owns MAXTOR now.