How do i get my maxtor 160g hard drive ready for use. Bought it a month ago, moved houses and lost the manual and CD. I just plugged in the power and data plug but it is not recognized by my Lenovo notebook.

Hard drives usually self install. Unplug the driver and switch it of so it is disconnected from the USB. restart your computer. turn the power back on for the drive and Plug the USB lead back in to the computer (When started up). Windows should install the driver automatically. This will take about a minute or two.

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Plug it into a friend's computer (in the same cables as his main drive) (Turn the system off and pull the plug out first!) Tell us if it works there.

Data loss happens all the time for various reasons. That's why you need to learn how to use a CD burning program to transfer the pictures to CD's. If you don't want to burn often, get yourself a 16GB little flash drive at least.

Sounds like you lost the drivers for your external. W/ out an online PC you cannot download them either. Do you have a friend that could do this on their PC? That is the only way.

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By set up differently you mean and ATA or SATA difference? That shoudll not matter as long as  the windows are alread on the first harddrive of the HP  Since your drive that you want to move is the second drive and does not contain the operating syastem you should be able to just phisically move the drive from one machine to the other. The new computer will see and install the drive as "FOund ne hardware" and asign it a letter. It will not disturb the data.

i have a maxtor my computer crashed and i lost my disk how do i get my pictures back

If you plugged the wrong power cord into it, it could have damaged the power supply in the drive. You may have to get it repaired.

Do you hear any sound when you plug in ?? any light blinking?

if you plugged in an incorrect power cable it is very possible it could be damaged if the voltage from the incorrect cable exceeds the drive. try hooking it on another PC, to verify if it's the drive or PC

Hope this helps

how do you have the master/slave combo?