Maxtor One Touch III not showing up on Mac OSX or Windows

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Maxtor One Touch III not showing up on Mac OSX or Windows

ok so i have this Maxtor one touch III external hard drive that i used to use with my XP computer a few years ago... its 500 GB. so i plug it in to my Mac and install the software and it doesn't show up on my desktop or my disk utility. although, it does show up in my system profiler. so, it didn't work for mac... then i went onto my parallels account that has windows 7 on it and it still doesn't show up. what can i do to fix this?

iMac 24-inch, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Windows 7 Professional

Posted on Mar 20, 2010 10:41 AM

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Answer 1

Fortuny

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Mar 20, 2010 10:46 PM in response to SynGatesFan200

Hi and welcome to Discussions,

please provide some informations, like:

connection of the Maxtor (USB; FireWire;...) ?
which version of Parallels ?
in which section of the System Profiler is the Maxtor shown ?
what kind of software did you install for the Maxtor ?

Stefan

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Answer 2

Mar 26, 2010 1:16 PM in response to Fortuny

Connection: USB
Version of parallels: 5.0
Section in system profiler: USB (shown as One touch III)
Software used: maxtor installation disc for one touch III (windows), downloaded maxtor one touch 4 software (mac)

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Fortuny

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Mar 27, 2010 9:23 PM in response to SynGatesFan200

SynGatesFan200 wrote:
Connection: USB
Version of parallels: 5.0
Section in system profiler: USB (shown as One touch III)
Software used: maxtor installation disc for one touch III (windows), downloaded maxtor one touch 4 software (mac)

Hi,

all this, with the exception of the Maxtor software, should indicate a no-problem with that HD.
Personally I have always avoided the provided software, since it is not needed for external HDs.

If you have access to a Windows PC try connecting the HD there and see what comes up.
And if you don't have valuable files on that HD, you might repartition it there as well.

Could be a rare case of a 'dynamic disk' http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314343/en-us which is something that Macs can't handle.

Regards

Stefan

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