Hi,
Just in need of some help. I've had my Maxtor Basics 250GB external hard drive for around half a year now, been working fine without any problems. I recently gave it to a friend to borrow to copy a few things over onto their laptop.
I got a phone call two days ago saying that all of a sudden it stopped working, so I've got it back today and had a look and I've plugged it into my PC, my other laptop and even my TV and nothing has happened, the light at the front of the hard drive doesnt even come on anymore either (usually a green light). This hard drive is USB powered so it has no power cable.
Although I did check the device manager on my PC and it showed one unrecognized device, when i tried to hit "look for hardware changes" it brought up plug and play and tried installing drivers through windows update and looked at previous installed drivers, that failed though..
Good thing is that its being recognized (kind off?) by the device manager, is there any solutions?
I had alot of my music and movies backed up on this hard drive so it would be sad to lose all of that
Heres a screen cap from my device manager:
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My last resort would be to open it up as I'm not very handy with opening up computers and hardware :sigh:
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Adam
Just in need of some help. I've had my Maxtor Basics 250GB external hard drive for around half a year now, been working fine without any problems. I recently gave it to a friend to borrow to copy a few things over onto their laptop.
I got a phone call two days ago saying that all of a sudden it stopped working, so I've got it back today and had a look and I've plugged it into my PC, my other laptop and even my TV and nothing has happened, the light at the front of the hard drive doesnt even come on anymore either (usually a green light). This hard drive is USB powered so it has no power cable.
Although I did check the device manager on my PC and it showed one unrecognized device, when i tried to hit "look for hardware changes" it brought up plug and play and tried installing drivers through windows update and looked at previous installed drivers, that failed though..
Good thing is that its being recognized (kind off?) by the device manager, is there any solutions?
I had alot of my music and movies backed up on this hard drive so it would be sad to lose all of that
Heres a screen cap from my device manager:
ImageShack® - Online Photo and Video Hosting
My last resort would be to open it up as I'm not very handy with opening up computers and hardware :sigh:
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Adam