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I really want and need my information off my hard drive what would you suggest??? Is that something a local computer store could retrieve or something MAXTOR could give me a better idea what to do-
Any information would help at this point and thanks IBeMad!
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It is very uncommon for a had drive to fail with out power surges or some other physical damage so I would suggest making sure all of the cables are connected properly and that the connectors on the back of the hard drive that tell it whether it is slave, cable select, or master are setup correctly, and if the hard drive has failed there really is no way to get information off of it, but my hopes are high that it has not failed. Good luck,
Andrew, That Maxtor drive sounds like it has finally died on you and being just an 80 gig drive means its really old. The systems failure to read the drive as your booting up is what's causing the long boot delay as the system will see the controller board of the drive, but your spindle motor on that drive is most likely dead and there fore you will not be able to access or read any of your data stored on that drive. Hope you had backups of important files.
try to rightclick in computer management on the disk and change "driver letter and paths" change it to X: or something. or you need to right click and creat partition. is it a new disk ?
I had this problem also. It was either dropped or something fell on it. You have to get it repaired or a new one. If you have VERY important information that cannot be replaced, consider a data recovery service from your local stores.
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