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DKowalski · 11-30-2006, 01:13 AM

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me out with my problem. I bought a maxtor 160gb hard drive in a USB external housing about a year ago. It worked just fine until for some reason the housing crapped out and stopped giving power to the hard-drive. Since my warranty just ran out anyways, i figured i'd just pull the actual hard-drive out of the housing and install it right into my computer. It worked just fine for a week or so, i could access all my files and everything, but now its on the fritz again. I was listening to music files from the hard drive when the music cut off suddenly and windows gave me an error message saying the files were corrupt. It asked me to run a disk check, which i did immediately with no results. Now, after the restart, i don't get any error messages. Instead, when i try to browse the hard-drive, it shows no files at all. When I look at Properties though, it says the space is still being used, only 58.8gb of free space out of 152. Can anyone help me out? Is there any more information you need? If there is, please tell me where to find it in detail, im kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff. Thanks!

11-30-2006, 01:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
DKowalski Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP	hard drive woes Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me out with my problem. I bought a maxtor 160gb hard drive in a USB external housing about a year ago. It worked just fine until for some reason the housing crapped out and stopped giving power to the hard-drive. Since my warranty just ran out anyways, i figured i'd just pull the actual hard-drive out of the housing and install it right into my computer. It worked just fine for a week or so, i could access all my files and everything, but now its on the fritz again. I was listening to music files from the hard drive when the music cut off suddenly and windows gave me an error message saying the files were corrupt. It asked me to run a disk check, which i did immediately with no results. Now, after the restart, i don't get any error messages. Instead, when i try to browse the hard-drive, it shows no files at all. When I look at Properties though, it says the space is still being used, only 58.8gb of free space out of 152. Can anyone help me out? Is there any more information you need? If there is, please tell me where to find it in detail, im kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff. Thanks!