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debbiell
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_ 		15. January 2007 @ 01:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi All,
I have been using a maxtor external, usb, 200gig drive to store my personal stuff for about a year. The other day when i double clicked on it in "my computer" to open it, it was empty? Also the computer no longer knows how much used/free space is on the drive? After a trouble shoot the computer now says the system on the external is RAW? (i think it used to ntfs?). If i take take the drive out of the case & put it into my PC as a slave & double click on the drive in "my computer" it comes up with an IO error?
Does anyone know what i can do to retrieve the files on my external??
Thanks in advance for any help.
Debbie
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rogeball
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_ 		15. January 2007 @ 04:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
sounds like the drive crashed try and run a disk utility program on it like spin rite or disk warrior. if they dont help, the drive probably crashed. you have to be careful with external drives.
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ddp
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_ 		15. January 2007 @ 08:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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debbiell
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_ 		15. January 2007 @ 17:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks for the help everyone. looks like the problem is solved.
Thank you all so much.
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ddp
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_ 		15. January 2007 @ 18:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
so what happened to get it working?
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suzi
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_ 		2. March 2007 @ 10:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi...new here and looking for help. what else?
I have an external hard drive (internal in a box and fairly new). I have about 10, but this is first time i have ever seen this issue.
It looked like it failed and red light came on, so my first instinct was to remove from one usb port and try another. When i removed usb plug from external USB the green indicator light went on so i naturally thought that i was correct in my assumption and tried an "on board" usb port. As soon as i plugged it in the red light came on again and drive was not recognized.
Any clues?
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