MAxtor hard drive wont connect

Connect the drive.
Open "My Computer".
Right-mouse click on the icon for the Maxtor.
Click FORMAT.
Choose Quick-Format.
When it completes (in a few seconds), all the files on the disk will be "gone",
because a "blank" Table-Of-Contents has replaced the previous Table-Of-Contents.

FORMAT AND CONNECT TO PC IF NOT RECOGNIZED MAY BE BAD HARD DRIVE . OR NOT COMPATIBLE

the problem is in one of your computers, try System Restore go to previous date at the problem.

Unless the data on the maxtor is very important You should format the drive, assuming you are using windows, go to my computer, right click on the drive, it should show the option to format. If the info is very important, my advice take it to a info recovery business.

Lee

Insert the drive into the bay and connect power and ribbon cable.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools >

Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management

Right click on the drive, click Mark Partition as Active then Format.

In this day and age, it's always best to format to NTFS file system.

I have one as well running along with a PC. PCs and Macs are formatted differently. Go to www.maxtor.com and create a search for reformatting from a Mac to a PC with your Operating System in the search as well. Should have no problems after doing that. It will tell you and or show you where and how to reformat.

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first, recover your files. You will need to use hard drive deleted photo recovery program like Asoftech Photo Recovery, you can follow this video to recover deleted photo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNxApz_PBW8

I've had to use it many times in the past but in this case you need to plug that drive into another system as an external drive or slave drive and run the software from there. It will rebuild the drive and hopefully recover the files.

After you get back your files, you can then format the drive and reinstall your system.

First, because they came from the Lacie external drive, they were raided to look like a single drive. To format them inside your computer. You have to go into computer management to initialize each drive at a time and format them by right clicking on the drive and format

click on the maxtor icon on theright hand bottom corner while the drive is connected and open maxtor manager and click ether settings or back up and click it to your liking.

This is the maxtor 4 installation utility: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=MaxBlast_4&vgnextoid=7add8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD Overview: MaxBlast 4 is a one-step, ATA/IDE hard drive installation utility. MaxBlast 4 makes hard drive installations and upgrades hassle-free for novices and professionals alike by automatically identifying, partitioning, and formatting any Maxtor ATA or SATA hard drive, making it data-ready in minutes. MaxBlast 4 replaces all previous versions of MaxBlast and MaxBlast Plus. Powermax 4.23: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=PowerMax_4.23&vgnextoid=a37d8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD Overview: The PowerMax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor and Quantum hard drives. These tests will determine hard drive integrity. The PowerMax utility is effective on all ATA (IDE) hard drives with a capacity greater than or equal to 500 MB. Maxtor recommends the use of this utility for troubleshooting potential hard drive problems. These problems include, but are not limited to the following: * Potential hard drive surface problems (e.g., bad clusters, bad sectors, partitioning/formatting problems, etc.). * Drive recognition problems (e.g. hard drive that is not recognized by the operating system). * Software removal.