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Maxtor 3 E030L0 USB Device

Mar 16, 2007 1:42AM PDT

Using this drive via USB port on HP Pavillion dv8000 notebook running XP. Although the drive shows up in the device list, I can neither read or write to the drive. Device properties states "This device is working properly." and using a MS Win Driver Ver 5.1.2535.0.

I want to use this as a backup system tool. the removable device is not recognized.

What do I need to do to use this as an external drive?

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(NT) Have you partitioned and formatted it yet?
Mar 16, 2007 1:53AM PDT
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Partioning & Formating
Mar 16, 2007 2:01AM PDT

I totally can't communicate with it, so how can I do that? I mean it shows up on the device manager list but not the Control Panel system tree.

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Sounds proper.
Mar 16, 2007 2:04AM PDT

It would not be in Explore or the Control Panel until we use the Disk Management tool to set it up.

"Disk Management is a graphical tool for managing disks and volumes. It supports partitions..."

Bob

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Disk Mgmt Info
Mar 16, 2007 6:55AM PDT

The volume for the removable drive lists basic partitions as 31 MB FAT Healthy (EISA config...) and 28.6 GB Healthy (Active).

Does that indicate it's already listed OK? Right clicks only open a dialog box on the 28.6 partition w/ delete partition active.

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This may be one of those things (more.)
Mar 16, 2007 8:35AM PDT

If the drive was created with other than Microsoft tools and/or created on something other than this box this happens. What other discover is that FAT32 volume 'vanish' for no explicable reason. I've been able to do this repeatedly by unplugging the USB cable during a write to FAT volumes. Not something you want to do unless it's a demo.

Recovery of said data is best not on an USB connection but directly on the IDE controller with recovery software such as ZAR or others.

Bob