FWIW, my Maxtor One Touch works fine with Vista and requires no drivers.
Perhaps you could uninstall the drivers, unplug the drive's USB connection,
reboot and then connect the drive to a USB port and see if the drive is
recognized.
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"Yammii" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hi...
>
> I upgraded to Windows Vista last night... I've had all sorts of little
> problems but the one that concerns me the most is my external hard
> drive... I installed all the drivers and my computer is not recognizing
> the drive correctly.
>
> Only once did it recognize it - I was able to get some files I had
> backed up. But after a reboot, it stopped working again. I have not
> been able to get it to work.
>
> This is how it registers under Device Manager:
>
> [image:
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...es/Maxtor.jpg]
>
> I went to the Maxtor Website which is now Seagate and they offer no
> help/drivers forvista what-so-ever...
>
> Can anyone here help?
>
> thank you... 
>
>
> --
> Yammii