Sigh. So I’m sitting here still fuming over the fact that I have an external Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB drive sitting on top of my computer. That’s because that is all that it is doing: sitting. The damn thing just stopped all of a sudden. Yep. No USB, no fireware, no recognition on any machine that I connect it to. D-E-A-D. This is the week that I try and get Maxtor to pony up for it.
What’s worse is that we bought this thing a few months ago to act as an archive of our material. It has (had) files from my old machines that I’m going to miss. UGH. So much for some of my favorite fansubs: Scrapped Princess, Beck, Midori no Hibi, School Rumble and a few others. And past work like templates, documents, images. Son of a bitch, the images. I had a picture of my grandparents that was scanned in that was found behind an air conditioning unit in the Philippines. It was a wedding picture that I was restoring. GONE. Oh, yeah. And some of my wedding pictures. And a few gigs worth of mp3s.
Every article or newspost/forum post that I’ve read isn’t helpful. And the Maxtor website is useless. I think I’m doomed.
I hate computers. Maybe I shouldn’t get a job in that industry again.
Hey, what file system is that thing? I would be happy to give it a shot and try and recover some things for you. Of course in order to attempt data recovery, I would have to open the external plastice case and access the actual hard drive so if you are going for a warranty replacement never mind. Let me know, I’m getting about a %60 to %70 success rate these days.
Yes yes, get on Maxtor’s case that their stupid product konked out less than 6 months after being put to use. Then let Rob play with it.
Rob wants to play with your paperweight.
heh.
Believe it or not, I think that the drive is FAT32. I have a Maxtor tech who is supposed to call me back. I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to do, namely because if they replace the drive I’m pretty sure all the data will be lost. Hence, I will have to defer to my Commander in Chief of Nest-Egg Designs whether or not to send it back for a warranty replacement OR give the sacrificial drive to you, his Robness, to void the warranty by cracking open the chocolatey outer shell.
Stupid technology.
Yes, Maxtor SUX MAJOR BALLS!!!!! The same thing happened to my Maxtor One Touch drive a couple of years ago too, only a couple months after I got it. Their website sux, their customer support sux, they just suck period. I was however, able to retrieve most of the data with this app I downloaded. The process was tedious, but worth it. Are you getting an error message saying it can’t find the disk drive when you plug it in? Another thing you can do is completely reformat the drive, if you can, and use a data recovery app to try to recover the data. You think maybe we can file a class action suit against Maxtor? ;oP j/k… .but yes, MAXTOR SUX BIG SWEATY BALLS!!!!!!