Maxtor One Touch Drives : Reliability

[Mike]

I currently have a 120gig external usb maxtor drive 3000le that works great.
I'm thinking of getting another and wanted to know how the reliability is
with the new maxtor one touch drives?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Lil' Dave]

Had mine now for 28 years, no problems. (alright, stop laughing already)
Dave

 

[Barnacle Bill]

I currently have a 120gig external usb maxtor drive 3000le that works great.
I'm thinking of getting another and wanted to know how the reliability is
with the new maxtor one touch drives?

Thanks,
Mike

I bought a new 300gig One Touch USB at Christmas. The first month it
started to develop bad sectors and these increased until areas of the
drive were not accessible. I had to end up reformatting it.

This Saturday three quarters of my MP3 files suddenly disappeared and
chkdsk only gets up to 26% of the drive before reporting sectors as
not accessible, so it looks like I've lost three quarters of my MP3
collection.

Now whether this is typical of the Maxtor One Touch drives, or I have
just been unlucky and got sent a rogue one I don't know but I am
certainly not happy with it and would not recommend them at this
point.

I maintain my drives/system well and the correct shutdown procedures
have always been followed before shutting down the drive. Also it has
never been unplugged and transported so it could not have been damaged
by transportation.

I bought it as a store for my MP3 files and also as a back-up for my
80mb main drive but it seems that it is not reliable as either a data
store or a backup volume. I will be sending mine back for a refund or
an exchange for a Lacie.

BB.

 

[Aaron Lake]

I bought a new 300gig One Touch USB at Christmas. The first month it
started to develop bad sectors and these increased until areas of the
drive were not accessible. I had to end up reformatting it.

Man, you should have returned it then.

so it looks like I've lost three quarters of my MP3 collection.

Good God, you didn't have them backed up somewhere else??

it seems that it is not reliable as either a data
store or a backup volume. I will be sending mine back for a refund or
an exchange for a Lacie.

My 160G One Touch was making clanging noises right out of the box. I just
returned it, and thought about trying another, but decided to wait. My BUSlink
40G will keep me going awhile. Only trouble is BUSlink never wrote a driver for
WXP for that drive. I'm using a W2K driver and it works, but WXP complains and
the drive wants to be reinstalled every session, so we'll see...

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Man, you should have returned it then.

Yep, I nearly did. I didn't have much data on it then and did a full
format and it worked fine for months so I took the lazy option and
figured it was OK. Until now that is.

Good God, you didn't have them backed up somewhere else??

Yes I do have them, but that in itself is another problem. Maybe you
can help me?.

I can't get Windows XP to apply a drive letter to the hard drive they
are on. The drive was initially in another PC formatted NTFS. It was
just a data drive and not a boot drive. I used it solely to store my
MP3 files.

When I attach the drive as a slave in my new system BIOS recognizes
it, and when I boot into WinXP it recognizes it also and the 'new
hardware' found icon pops up in the system bar, however the drive
isn't given a drive letter by XP so I cannot access it.

I have checked in device manager and the drive is there and marked as
working correctly. I've also gone into the computer management/hard
drive management console and the drive is shown there as an NTFS
volume, even the volume name is shown, it's marked as 'healthy' but
the ability to assign the a drive letter to the drive is grayed out.
Obviously without a drive letter assigned the drive is not accessible
through my computer or explorer.

Any ideas?.

bb.

 

[Aaron Lake]

Yes I do have them, but that in itself is another problem. Maybe you
can help me?.

I can't get Windows XP to apply a drive letter to the hard drive they
are on. The drive was initially in another PC formatted NTFS. It was
just a data drive and not a boot drive. I used it solely to store my
MP3 files.

Sorry, but I'm relatively new to WXP myself, and having only used laptops for
many years my drive expertise extends only to getting the external ones to work,
which ain't rocket science since it usually only involves getting the right
driver.

But if no one else answers up here, point your newsreader to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware and ask. Lots of that type help there. If
your particular news server doesn't carry the microsoft.public groups, you can
go direct to the originating microsoft server and read them from the horses
mouth so to speak.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

But if no one else answers up here, point your newsreader to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware and ask. Lots of that type help there. If
your particular news server doesn't carry the microsoft.public groups, you can
go direct to the originating microsoft server and read them from the horses
mouth so to speak.

Thanks for that Aaron, I'll ask there. I think my server carries all
the microsoft public groups.

Cheers,

BB.