My problem is I have a Maxtor One Touch lll Mini 150 GB external hard drive; which was accidentally formatted and thereby lost the ability to utilize the setup feature. It will not allow me to use the one touch backup feature and other utilities. These options are not available; since the formatting erased them. Is there a download possible to restore these items and if not, is there another way to remedy this situation?

SOURCE: Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition 80 GB - one touch button not working

Instal cd with maxtor programs on comp.

SOURCE: Maxtor One Touch 11 external hard drive.

OK, I can give you both the proper solution, but i need to know if you are on Macintosh or PC..?



Keep me posted.

SOURCE: drive not detected in Mac

you might have to reformat it, try going on to the application "disk utility" on your mac and check to see if your hard drive shows up there. if so all you have to do is mount it and then it should show up on your desktop. 

SOURCE: Maxtor One Touch II - installation Software

I have a disk that worked for me and I am running windows xp. I also have the website address that is supposed to have the 98 drivers which could work perhaps. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Maxtor_OneTouch_Drive_USB/Win98SE_Driver&vgnextoid=b07d8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

Guess you could try them first and if that doesnt work I could perhaps make a backup of the disk/package/mail/ worth anything?

joecoolvette

• 5660 Answers
• Posted on May 14, 2009

SOURCE: Data disappeared overnight

I've seen a lot of flack about these puppies lately. It's usually due to the external enclosure, the harddrive is in, and not the harddrive itself.

It is for this reason, that I suggest that you take the harddrive out of this enclosure, and install it into a decent, affordable, new external enclosure.
External enclosures are relatively cheap!

The harddrive inside the Maxtor One Touch II is a desktop size harddrive. It's a 3.5 inch one.
(3 and a half inches across in width)
It is a Sata harddrive.

These are examples of external enclosures for a Sata 3.5 inch harddrive,
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=2780&name=3.5-eSATA-enclosure&Nav=|c:2778|&Sort=0&Recs=10
(My recommendation would be the Vantec NexStar 3 NST-360 Su-BL)

This external enclosure has instructions, is easy to install the harddrive, and uses a USB cable just like your old one.