Hi everyone. About 5 months ago my external hard drive stopped working. Well it's an internal one actually, it's a 40gb Maxtor 3.5" IDE drive that I used via a USB caddy. When I plug it in, with usb:
> windows dings and detects a new storage device
> it shows up correctly in Device Manager
> it does NOT appear in My Computer
> it does NOT appear in Disk Management
Please note those points carefully, because I've seen other people ask about this kind of thing and people always assume that the drive is visible in Disk Management even when they say it isn't.
I haven't managed to get it working when connected into another computer internally, either. They either just won't boot up at all, or the drive doesn't show up. I have a laptop and don't have access to a desktop computer to be plugging it into. Ideally a solution would therefore be viable with just a USB connection.
Any ideas how I can retrieve the data? It is the contents of the drive that I want back, and I will go to any length to retrieve it.
Many thanks
> windows dings and detects a new storage device
> it shows up correctly in Device Manager
> it does NOT appear in My Computer
> it does NOT appear in Disk Management
Please note those points carefully, because I've seen other people ask about this kind of thing and people always assume that the drive is visible in Disk Management even when they say it isn't.
I haven't managed to get it working when connected into another computer internally, either. They either just won't boot up at all, or the drive doesn't show up. I have a laptop and don't have access to a desktop computer to be plugging it into. Ideally a solution would therefore be viable with just a USB connection.
Any ideas how I can retrieve the data? It is the contents of the drive that I want back, and I will go to any length to retrieve it.
Many thanks