I bought an enclosure kit for my old Maxor One Touch II hard drive that wasn't powering up when in its normal casing, but it's not showing up in explorer so I can access it. The disk starts spinning when I connect the power cable. It shows up in device manager under disk drives as "Maxtor 7 L300R0...
I can see my 40 gig Maxtor usb drive sitting on my desktop, but alas I cannot access the contents, in fact I cannot even right click the drive to get to properties, if I double click the icon in my computer the whole desktop screen of icons disappears for a few seconds then all is normal. I have...
I have a REALLY old HDD and just for the sake of it, I want to open it.
So i took out all the normal screws, and now there are two 6-pointed star shaped screws left, which I don't have the proper screwdriver for (they are torx screws)
Was wondering if anyone here has a way to open torx screws...
Trying to use my two old Maxtor diamomdmax plus 9 drives as slaves for extra storage.
Problem is I can't get them configured properly.
At the moment I have two sata drives hooked up as raid0. My board only has one ide hookup so I have to connect both maxtors to the same cable.
I've tried...
I used to have one! It seems to have disappeared, and I run diagnostics, and shows that the driver is messed up. I uninstall old driver, replug the external Maxtor HD back in, it shows that it installed a new driver, and I have to reboot. I do that, and still no HD. This is what I get, any help...