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chicoman
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_ 		2. March 2008 @ 15:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi, I have a Maxtor 250G external drive, Had it for 3,4 years now..Now i can't get it to open, Says its not formatted & if i want to format.. Don't want to reformat because i will lose all my data on there...Will not let me check for bad sectors...Any help would be great..Thanks!
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IrlMonk
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_ 		2. March 2008 @ 19:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i have a segate freeagent desktop 320g external h/drive. its about 8 months old. just recently the data would slowly dissapear from the system. i tried it on a different pc and all data was still there. when it happened again i unplugged the drive and powered back up, data still there. so i downloaded seagates drive manager. i ran a test using the drive manager, just when a pop-up appears reading: windows write delayed failed >F. this told me it was a bad device. this device requires service, a return materials autorization (RMA) is available. i think there is a 5 year warranty on their external h/drives, so its not too late, but awkward. maxtor and seagate seem to have a common problem with their drives for reliability.
can anyone reccomend a replacement?
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