Help with maxtor drive, please.
PC is Win 7, all seems fine.
Drive is an external Maxtor, usb 2 connector. which worked fine with my old pc and XP SP 3.
The Maxtor "one touch" software which came with the drive does not work with Win 7 and is no longer supported by Seagate.
So I decided to use the drive for back up letting Win 7 do the back up.
It did the first back up fine. I could go to "computer" and see what was on the drive.
No more.
Under Computer management, device manager, Maxtor, properties, policies, I have enabled "quick removal".
One day the Win 7 back up seemed to be taking forever, and not discernably doing anything, so I stopped it, and removed the usb.
Now, in "computer" it says "the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable" no matter which usb I plug it in to.
Under "computer management" the "device manager" bit tells me that it sees the drive. it tells me that it is working fine. The Storage, disk management part tells me that the disk is "Healthy" - whatever that means. .....but under properties in storage/disk management, it tells me that it has Zero disk space. Zero used, zero free, and zero total.
Er, any ideas what to do, or is it time to bin the drive? I would like to see what is on it, if possible, before I bin it. Any thoughts?
thanks
AO