Is this on the USB 2.0 port?
If not, put it on such a port.
bob
I am using a Dell running windows 98 that was given to me after my gateway crashed a couple of months ago. My 60gig Maxtor external hard drive worked fine with my new machine up until the other day. My computer reads that is it still hooked up and gives me the gig info and says there is still 45 gigs used up, so I know my data is still on there. When I try to open it is says "E:/ is not accessible, A device attatched to the system is not functioning". When I try to run scandisk is says "such a program as disk utility has locked it". I tried hooking it up at a friends house on their Dell running Windows XP, but ran into the same problem. I read another post on this site regarding a similar issue and contacted on track recovery to see if they could help. Even though My pictures, home movies, music all lie within this hard drive, I am unable to spend thousands of dollars to retreive them right now, is there any way to retreive my information??? I tried chkdsk but it prompts me to run scandisk first, which as I said I am also unable to do, please help, this is extremely frustrating.

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