maybe the hard drive itself.
Still under warranty...call Maxtor at your earliest.
If you're beyond the warranty, open the enclosure, remove the HDD, jumper it as necessary and install it as second HDD in a desktop system to see if the drive still works.
Good Luck.
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Something happened to my external harddrive.
Ok, One day i was watching some anime from my harddrive on my laptop, i was watching for about 1hour. Then later next day when i tried to open my external harddrive on my other computer, it read the connection like the Safely Remove thing came up, but the auto run did not pop up, it usually does. Then when i go to my computer, it froze or sometimes it says Local Drive E:, usually it will say the name of my harddrive. After when i try opening Local Drive E:, that "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." pops up. Need Help please
The harddrive would not open on the laptop either
mother board: Intel Corporation D915GAV Desktop Baord
proccessor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz
Windows XP

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