Hey guys, wanted to see if anyone could halp me out. My Maxtor 200 GB stopped working some time ago. Lucky for me I was able to recover all the data . My problem now is that I can't get windows to recognize the Maxtor drive. I tried Hard Disk Wipe Tool from this site to restore it back to it's factory settings, but after wipe is complete, nothing happens. I'm I missing something, what should be my next step.? I just want this thing to work again It's been through hell and back and I'd love to get it working once again Any advice is much appriciated, thanks in advance!

Sorry for typos lol no Word here

Did you format this drive after?
Did you install OS?

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Here's the easiest way to fix it:

1) Open the OneTouch enclosure
2) Remove the BAD drive
3) Insert a good 200GB drive
4) Close the enclosure back up and enjoy

I'm sure you won't like this solution. You'd rather run a freeware program that magically fixes the existing broken drive. It probably doesn't exist, but even if it did we would need at least a clue as to what's wrong with your drive. Clicks? Other sounds? What were you doing it when it died? Did you drop it? Did you take the drive out of the enclosure and connect it directly to the computer IDE bus? Was it recognized?

Well guys actually, I think I got it, I'm running a format as we speak, I didn't realise that I had to run format it using soft. I was trying to do it through MS-DOS I'll let you know how it turns out. And no I'm not installing OS onto it

You shouldn't have to format from DOS. In Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management, you can create a partition and format it. This assumes you have XP. I try to avoid Vista like a leper.

No Vista here lol not for me, but I got the drive up and running, I ended up using Paragon Hard Disk manager for formating and partitioning Thanks god it was nothing super bad>

Rchadwick,

Sometimes the only way for me to successfully partition a drive with NTFS in XP is to use the OEM XP install disk and begin to install XP, but stop the process before any files are loaded. It seems XP is buggy when you use the built-in tools to format (ps . . . I hate Windows).

Have you . . . or anyone else . . . had the same kind of problem / solution?

Jon

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I haven't seen that in XP. I'm no banner boy for Windows, but XP does seem to be the best version so far. Have you tried formatting in a PE environment? Or are you looking for a Windows solution?