I have a Maxtor MaxLine Plus II 7Y250MO 250 GB SATA that Lost a file in the start-up process being the sys 32 fie anyway after much effort was reduced to buying another harddrive and reinstalling my os and all fo my personal Programs the problem being is I need the files I put on the other disk which was not backed up(my bad). I connected the dirve via USB Caddy (ie:enclosure) and the drive is showing up present in system but cannot be accessed. My question is is there a way to fix this mechanically or set a jumper to retrieve my files or am I S.O.L
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Hi,no your not sol
First is the drive beeing seen when you open (my computer)if not thats one problem,and is easly fixed.Just go to start and type troubleshooting open that,now looking to the left side top of that screen you'll see view all,left click that,a new window will open.look for (Hardware and Devices) and left click that,This will find and reinstall the correct driver for any connected drives,follow the directions and restart if needed.Now you should be able to get back into the drive in question,if not try booting your system from your CD rom with your windows disk in place,booting from your windows disk will load all needed win 32 drivers by default.you seem to have an idea of installing so I'll not get into how to boot from the disk hope this has helped...
Another option would be to go to http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/ and try reinstalling the drivers (I find it best to save to the desktop then install) also having the drive connected via a usb caddy,the drive must be set as a slave drive,the sticker on the drive should show the correct setting.good luck post back with your operating system for further help.
I am using a caddy and the drive set as slave wiil spin-up but it cannot be accessed I can see the drive but it will not be read.