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michaelgilpin · 06-03-2007, 06:39 PM

have a new maxtor ata drive 120 gig been using as slave for couple yearsnow that i want to switch it to the master windows cannot intall on the drive it says drive is unecsesable. now when pluged in as slave drive shows up in device manager as generic drive. but not in my computer or in drive manager. i am running xp pro and am open to any sudgestions. i have tried maxblast for maxtor drives but it cannot find the drive it says there are no maxtor drives connected. i have also double checked the bios settings. getting frustrated with this one.

06-03-2007, 06:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
michaelgilpin Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 3 OS: win xp pro	maxtor unreadable? have a new maxtor ata drive 120 gig been using as slave for couple yearsnow that i want to switch it to the master windows cannot intall on the drive it says drive is unecsesable. now when pluged in as slave drive shows up in device manager as generic drive. but not in my computer or in drive manager. i am running xp pro and am open to any sudgestions. i have tried maxblast for maxtor drives but it cannot find the drive it says there are no maxtor drives connected. i have also double checked the bios settings. getting frustrated with this one.