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Maxtor One Touch II not being recognized...
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 USB Device", as "USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge" when I click on safely remove hardware, and in computer management as Disk 1 "Unknown" (279.48 GB - Unallocated). In Computer Management a box pops up saying "Initialize Disk: You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it" with two options: MBR (Master Boot Record) and GPT (GUID Partition Table). When I click on the MBR option it says, "Virtual Disk Manager: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." When I click on the GPT option it says, "Virtual Disk Manager: The semaphore timeout period has expired." None of what I just said changes when I switch from slave to master to CS enabled. Seagates diagnostic tool doesn't recognize the drive, and neither does Recuva Data Recovery Tool. I installed the drivers using the disk that came with the drive, but device manager says it is using a Windows driver from 2006. When I try updating the driver manually it says the version needs to be 64 bit (which I can't find anywhere). For what it's worth, the drive itself says it is a MaXLine III 300 GB PATA133 HD.
Anyone have any ideas how I can get this thing working long enough to get my files off of it?