Hi
I have a 300 Gb Maxtor Personal Storage 3100 which up until recently has been working well with my Acer Travelmate 370 laptop to store large files and backups.
Recently the laptop had some issues with the Windows XP version of the screaming blue screen of death owing I think to some software peripheral conflicts. When a blue screen would appear I would restart the laptop and it would do a checkdisk, usually on the C drive but on at least one occasion on the Maxtor drive. On that occasion I pressed the spacebar to skip the scan. Unfortunately since then the laptop has failed to show the Maxtor in Explorer.
When I plug the Maxtor in I hear Windows make a sound that it has recognized the drive but it does not show up in Explorer.
When I go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools the Maxtor shows up on Computer Management as “Online” but “Unallocated” with no drive letter in the top portion.
Can I get this drive to be recognized by laptop again without losing all the information on it?
Regards
Steve Bliim
