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Mazelda
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_ 		4. June 2010 @ 13:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
can someone give me some ideas I have a maxtor 1tb portable hard drive that has worked absolutly fine with my win xp system until yesterday but for some reason it's thrown a complete wobbly and now refuses to work, all i get is drive not accessable although in my computer its visable .
I have 2 laptops that operate one with windows vista and the other with windows 7 both of these see the drive and both of them will access the drive and anything on the drive works what can I do to get to get the drive working on the xp system again as I want to upgrade the xp system to windows 7 but cant until i get the portable drive to work
I tried uninstalling the drivers through device manager and reinstalling but that didnt work ,any ideas would be gratefully appreciated
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ddp
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_ 		4. June 2010 @ 14:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
have you tried a system restore to before the problem?
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Mazelda
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_ 		4. June 2010 @ 17:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ddp:
 have you tried a system restore to before the problem?
no not yet am in the middle of checking the drive for errors on the win 7 machine but will try that although not hopeful of a fix
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Mazelda
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_ 		5. June 2010 @ 10:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mazelda:
Originally posted by ddp:
 have you tried a system restore to before the problem?
no not yet am in the middle of checking the drive for errors on the win 7 machine but will try that although not hopeful of a fix
Have now tried an earlier point but no luck doesnt recognise the file system am running some virus scans but think it might need a format on the win 7 machine and then start again
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KillerBug
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_ 		7. June 2010 @ 02:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It sounds like it is time for a good file recovery app...the problem is probably very small, just in a very important area. Usually you can get your files back from a drive like this; but they may be missing their names.
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