Maxtor External Harddrive problems...

jared17 · 09-16-2006, 05:08 PM

Hey everyone, so the problem I'm having is, my friend let me borrow his parents external harddrive because they put the video of our band playing on it, and I wanted to show my cousins it. Now my problem is is that, XP will say the new hardware is installed and I have installed everything off the instalation disk, and the drive shows up on my computer, it is labelled as the F: drive. So I know it is there, but it always comes up with this error when I try and acces it "F:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error".

So basically I don't know what that means so any help from anyone to help me figure out how i can get this working would be EXTREMELY appreciated.

THanks everyone
Jared

Jet · 09-16-2006, 05:32 PM

Were there any drivers for it?

jared17 · 09-16-2006, 05:36 PM

yeah, the drivers were supposedly on the installation cd, and I installed everything on it. It recognizes that it is there, it just won't let me access it, and I hooked it up through USB 1.1, i unfortunatly don't have 2.0 or firewire.

jared17 · 09-16-2006, 06:11 PM

Bump

jared17 · 09-17-2006, 09:10 PM

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09-16-2006, 05:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
jared17 Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 20 Posts: 34	Maxtor External Harddrive problems... Hey everyone, so the problem I'm having is, my friend let me borrow his parents external harddrive because they put the video of our band playing on it, and I wanted to show my cousins it. Now my problem is is that, XP will say the new hardware is installed and I have installed everything off the instalation disk, and the drive shows up on my computer, it is labelled as the F: drive. So I know it is there, but it always comes up with this error when I try and acces it "F:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". So basically I don't know what that means so any help from anyone to help me figure out how i can get this working would be EXTREMELY appreciated. THanks everyone Jared

09-16-2006, 05:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jet Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,298	Were there any drivers for it? __________________ Macbook/Intel Core Duo 1.83Ghz/2GB DDR2 667/60GB HD/OSX 10.4.11/160GB 3.5" Firewire External/160GB Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini External/

09-17-2006, 09:10 PM	#5 (permalink)
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09-16-2006, 05:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
jared17 Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 20 Posts: 34	yeah, the drivers were supposedly on the installation cd, and I installed everything on it. It recognizes that it is there, it just won't let me access it, and I hooked it up through USB 1.1, i unfortunatly don't have 2.0 or firewire.

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