External and OS

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hkeskiva

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Hi!

I'm in a sticky situation:

I've got a Maxtor 500GB external hard drive and I use it between my desktop with XP and my notebook with Vista. But the problem is when I connect the Maxtor from my notebook to desktop or vice versa, it becomes unreadable and the computer that it is afterwards connected, signifies the data is corrupted etc. until I do full CHKDSK shit (takes hours). I've already lost some data cause of this weird stuff and I need to know how to fix this or get the explanation why is this happening to my Maxtor.

PS. I've changed it to a new one a while ago so it ain't broken, just some conflict between desktop xp and notebook vista...
 
Is this a MyBook or just a drive in a case you bought? On a related note everything I stick my XP formated flash drive in a Vista computer it wasn't to scan it for consistancy.
 
It's a normal external USB hard drive, Maxtor Basics 500GB. And when I change the USB slot, it may appear as a raw data and suggests a format . But after a chkdsk it works again... can't figure it out.




lawson_jl said:
Is this a MyBook or just a drive in a case you bought? On a related note everything I stick my XP formated flash drive in a Vista computer it wasn't to scan it for consistancy.
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If it's becoming corrupted in both directions I would have to say it's the drive itself. Have you tried safetly ejecting the drive in task manager before unplugging.
 
lawson_jl said:
If it's becoming corrupted in both directions I would have to say it's the drive itself. Have you tried safetly ejecting the drive in task manager before unplugging.
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Everything has been done to safely use the drive, ejecting included. In brief: I plug the drive to my Vista comp => it works flawlessly, no problems whatsoever. I plug the drive to my XP comp => BAM, comp says it's raw data, can't read and says it's corrupted data. I do my magic with chkdsk /r and my drive becomes all readable again. Now when I change to VIsta comp, again corrupted, "raw" data and chkdsk /r will fix it.

However some files have become totally corrupted so they can't be fixed even with chkdsk /r. It's like my drive works only with one OS, either XP or Vista. Any answer to that?

Appreciate the effort.
 
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