Need to dump my data from my mac to my maxtor external hardrive

PUT BACK IN PC, THEN COPY/PASTE THE FILES YOU WANT TO SAVE TO EXTERNAL... OR BUY A DISK ENCLOSURE , CABLES AND USE AS A USB...........HOPE THIS HELPS. FIRST OPTION IS FREE...........JEFFXC

You could try to format it by right clicking its drive icon in My Computer. If no go then perhaps download and use Seatools. It is easy to use and instructions are very clear:- http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=seatools-win-eula&vgnextoid=d0d51d4dad651110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

This could be an issue with the circuit board.I am facing a similar problem & shown it for repairing. And facing issue in sourcing the IC. Seagate is giving support for maxtor after it has taken over. Data recovery is possible only if the circuit is working.

No, you haven't lost anything. When you restored your software, you only restored the factory stuff. You'll need to reinstall the driver for the external hard drive. After you do that, your external drive and data should be accessible.

Hi,

First and foremost if you're getting power but not seeing the drive you likely have either a drive or enclosure circuitry failure.

If you have no power lights try a new power adapter.

If the drive has failed and you want the data back you will need a Data Recovery Pro to asist you, if the enclosure has failed it will be much simpler.

Step one take the drive enclosure to a PC shop(no offence to Mac techs but they stink at salvage efforts, must be too many years of promising nothing ever fails ;)). When you get there ask them to remove the hard drive from your Maxtor enclosure and pop it into a generic enclosure(looks cheap but the internals are identical in most cases). Then ask them to test the drive to see if it shows up, depending on how you formatted it they may need MacDisk to make it visable.

If it works, buy the enclosure and head home, you're done. Plug it into your Mac and go on with your day, no harm no foul.

If this fails to see the drive, then the Hard Drive itself is likely at fault, in this case reply to me with your Country, State and City and I will refer you to the closest Data Recovery Facuility with Mac capabilities to have your data retrieved,

Of course if the only data on it is still accesible on the computer and it's a dead drive, just buy a new external, head home and rerun the backups manually as in this case it's cheaper to chuck and replace the external than have it recovered.


Hope this helps FixYa,

Chris

Hi,
Try a more reliable brand. Maxtor isn't. You don't want to take chances with your files!
Here are two options:

1 www.carbonite.com this company will back your computer up automatically for 50.00 a year unlimited.

2 here is a much more reliable external drive at the link below.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Essential-External-WDH1U10000N/dp/B000VZCEUI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1234779508&sr=8-2

Hope this works for your needs
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good luck,

eric

Try reading this post........http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-32880.html

I would check Maxtors website to see if there is compatibility issue using that particular drive on a Mac.

Hi, keep it simple mate, just change where the back up is stored when your back up program asks you where to store it, just tell it to store to your external drive