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Hi. I have 2 older external hard drives that I need drivers for. I was told with my OS.. Windows XP that if I just connect it to my computer it will automatically recognize the drive but it doesnt. The case is different from the hard drive. The hard drive is a Quantum Maverick. I know Quantum was bought by Seagate which was bought by Maxtor. I have called Maxtor and Seagate with no luck. The one rep even asked his supervisor who supposedly had been working with Quantum drives for 25 years and the rep came back and told me that his supervisor has never heard of a Quantum Maverick. I looked on many sites looking for drivers for these no one has them and I found a technician who has Quantum maverick drivers and he said hed give them to me but keeps pressing me to bring it in. I dont want to I just need the drivers (the updated ones). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.
 
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What happens when you plug the drives in, do they show up in disk management? If so they likely are not partitioned and that's all you need to do.
 
my external hard drives

when I connect it to my computer it doesnt recognize it not even the found new hardware bubble pops up
 
The 2 external hard drives are each 270 mb once again they are quantum mavericks and I need the newest updated drivers for them. Driver guide doesnt have them. Does anyone know of a different site that has drivers?
 
I know how to check on regular hard drives to see what they are set to and change them but these external drives it shows the config but where and how to change them to master or slave is beyond me. Can anyone help me? Thank You.
 
If it's fully encased then there's nothing to check as it should have left the factory setup properly. If it's just an enclosure that you put a drive in then you just need to take the drive out and set it as you normally would.

Are you able to test the drives on another PC? It almost sounds like they are not getting enough power or that your USB ports are disabled.
 
I doubt if they would work on another PC. They are getting enough power they turn on the computer doesnt recognize them tho and they dont connect through a USB port. They have a SCSI exterminator to connect to the back of the case and they connect to the tower through the parallel printer port. I have Windows XP which is supposed to recognize it but it doesnt.



Cromewell said:
If it's fully encased then there's nothing to check as it should have left the factory setup properly. If it's just an enclosure that you put a drive in then you just need to take the drive out and set it as you normally would.

Are you able to test the drives on another PC? It almost sounds like they are not getting enough power or that your USB ports are disabled.
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