I bought a Maxtor HDD (8mb 7200rpm 120GB) a couple of weeks ago and eneded up using it as the C drive with a new windows XP pro install. After a few days of using it, in the middle of the night I woke up to hear rather loud "chuga-chuga-thump" sounds coming from my computer. I wasn't about to troubleshoot at that time so I turned off the machine. When I restarted in the morning the machine hung on the windows splash screen.
I couldn't even reformat the drive when I tried. Now I've got it in an external enclosure. If I restart my computer and the drive I can pull data from it as long as the little autoplay window that comes up with removable drives is running. As soon as it finishes and asks me what I want to do file transfers stop and windows says it can't find the specified file.
I can see the files on the drive no matter what though. I'm ticked with Maxtor (and I don't have the package or I'd return it to BB) but I need to transfer some larger files off the drive that don't come off in the couple minutes I have available. R-studio isn't working on the drive. Suggestions? Thanks.
I couldn't even reformat the drive when I tried. Now I've got it in an external enclosure. If I restart my computer and the drive I can pull data from it as long as the little autoplay window that comes up with removable drives is running. As soon as it finishes and asks me what I want to do file transfers stop and windows says it can't find the specified file.
I can see the files on the drive no matter what though. I'm ticked with Maxtor (and I don't have the package or I'd return it to BB) but I need to transfer some larger files off the drive that don't come off in the couple minutes I have available. R-studio isn't working on the drive. Suggestions? Thanks.