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Maxtor 3200 300 gig. Drive is not recognized via

Maxtor 3200 300 gig. Drive is not recognized via my sony vaio laptop pcg-k25. I have already uninstalled the driver. I have detached the device. I can hear and feel the drive running. There is a faint beep every 5 seconds or so. I cannot access my data! Please help me.

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This sounds very much like there is not quite enough power getting to the drive to fire it up.
I use a usb lead that has a second plug on it to supply extra power (similar to the lead supplied with the e220 dongle) and that gets round the problem.

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Reboot the laptop, reseat the cables, and try connecting the drive to different usb port. if that still doesn't work, most likely the drive has gone bad.

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