About 3 years ago I bought a MaxTor 250Gig Ex-HD on ebay. It only had a 'fine-wire' connection and a two-prong cord I had it hooked up to my old computer and have a lot of stuff on there. I got this PC in 2005, hooked it up to this and all was fine until one day the computer wouldn't recognize the drive. The light, on the HD, was on but the fan wasn't spinning? I unplugged it, restarted & plugged it back in. Now the fan started spinning but, stupid me, thinking it would work from then on I just left things there. It worked for a day or two and then failed again. The on light is always on but the fan hasn't spun since then. I then heard bad things about MaxTor, they're cheap & fail often. So I went back to evilbay & bought a Western Digital Ex-HD 300Gig with a 3-prong cord. This one has both fine-wire 1396 port & USB 2.0 ports I'm using the 2.0 now. The old one had 35% free space, I had it loaded till there was only 16%, but transferred files to my desk top. There are still files on the MaxTor that I hope to save, pics, jokes and lyrics. But the MaxTor website was no help. Is there a way I can fix it, or can I bring it to Radio Shack or another computer store and have them put the files on CD's?
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2006-06-22 07:00:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
why not take the drive out of the caddy make it a slave drive and plug it into your pc, you can then check that it works and if so recover your files, share it on the primary or secondary ide interface using a dual ide connector
2006-06-22 07:05:32 · answer #1 · answered by **Xp_mAn_Xp** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the drive out of the enclosure and make it into a "Slave" internal drive. Don't waste a perfectly good drive.
2006-06-22 17:11:01 · answer #2 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋