I read your problem and I have the exact same issue with a 300 g maxtor. Would you tell me exactly what you did to be able to recognize the drive
I have a Maxtor 200 GB One Touch filled with music. I have had some problems with corrupted file clusters on the unit due to occasional unsafe removals (which in my opinion is a design failure of the USB 2.0 interface, why allow data get corrupted just because an external disk is disconnected?). But I have managed to exclude the corruped files up til I wasn?t able to acces the disk at all. Note that this is just due to a few unsafe removals in total!
I tested some data recovery programs but with no success. Then I read the advise from to test the chkdsk command. I entered
chkdsk [volume
/r.
It took one weekend to go thorugh all data but now the disk is up running again.
Note: chkdsk [volume
/f was no good in this case.
So all of you in despair due to unsafe removal - there is a solution.
Thank you for this forum! As someone said; Good Luck - pass it on..

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