It appears that you've bought 2 duds in a row. Time to let them keep this model until you hear it's been fixed.
Bob
I recently purchased a 500 GB Maxtor One Touch II, and I'm having all kinds of problems, please help. The drive continues to crash, after several reformats and reinstalls it still crashes.
The drive is attached to my IBM Think pad with Windows 2000, about 3 years old, via a firewire PCMCIA card. My computer is not very robust 128 ram, I am not sure of the processor (I'm at work), but it meets the minimum standards on the Maxtor box. It is formatted NTFS because that is what another forum said was the best choice, although I am beginning to wonder.
Here is how it is acting. I am using the drive to store music and photos, about 40 gigs all told. Once it is formatted and the files are moved over it works fine for a bit. Then as soon as I use iTunes to either move songs on to my ipod or if add files to my iTunes library the drive starts to fail. The boot error is that there is a problem in the Master File Table, and it usually decides that a few of the songs can't be found and deletes them in the disk check. This happens a few times until one time the **** check can't complete and the drive becomes completely inaccessible. I've called Maxtor service and they spent 3 hours on the phone with me talking me through uninstall reinstall checking the drivers and were really great. The drive worked for about a month and then the same failure.
Does anyone have any ideas? Please help.

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