Sounds like it died. Drives giving errors will die.
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
Gigabyte motherboard
Windows XP SP2
ATI Radeon
I have an old Maxtor DiamondMax 8 40GB hard drive that I was playing around with, and basically turned it into an external hard drive using Vantec's USB to IDE kit. It was working perfectly, then as I was transferring about 100 MB of data, I got an error, then the drive would no longer be recognized correctly by Windows. Sometimes it installs it as a Maxtor drive in Device Manager, but I have no drive letter. I have plugged another hard drive into the USB to IDE kit, and it is recognized correctly. Any idea why the first drive seems to be inaccessible after the data transfer error?

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